St. Thomas Aquinas
"The pursuit of wisdom especially joins man to God in friendship."
Wednesday, January 22, 2014
Austin Fagothey: Right and Reason
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Recommended reading: Right and Reason: Ethics in Theory and Practice Based on the teachings of Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas . “ Right a...
"Natural justice"
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"THE human will can, by common agreement, make a thing to be just provided it be not, of itself, contrary to natural justice, and it is...
Jacques Maritain on Democracy
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“THE FORM and this ideal of common life, which we call democracy, springs in its essentials from the inspiration of the Gospel and cannot su...
Thursday, January 16, 2014
"A law that is not just, seems to be no law at all"
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"AS Augustine says (De Lib. Arb. i, 5) "that which is not just seems to be no law at all": wherefore the force of a law depen...
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
D.J. Sullivan: Rights and Duties in Relation to Society
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“JUST AS PHILOSOPHERS differ about the origin of society, so too they dispute the foundation of rights and duties. For those who hold that m...
Sunday, January 12, 2014
Gilson: The Terrors of the Year Two Thousand
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The Terrors of the Year Two Thousand , by Etienne Gilson © 1949, 1984 University of St. Michael's College " The Terrors of the Year...
Baptism of Christ
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"AS Augustine says (Super Joan., Tract. xiii): "After being baptized, the Lord baptized, not with that baptism wherewith He was ba...
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