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Resources » Cajetan's Summa Commentaries in English » 4/25/2016 1:17 am

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I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this, but does anyone know of Cardinal Cajetan's commentaries of Thomas' Summa have been translated into English.  I've gone down the rabbit hole of searching the internet many a time and have not found it.  Does anyone know if it even exists in English?

Theoretical Philosophy » Aquinas' Second Way and essentially ordered causal series » 2/12/2016 11:39 pm

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When discussing Aquinas' proofs for God's existence, Edward Feser always makes the point that when Aquinas asserts that a series of cause and effects cannot be infinite, Aquinas is referring to a causal series per se--or an essentially ordered causal series--as opposed to a causal series per accidens.

When looking into Aquinas' writings, however, I have not found this distinction made at all. The closest thing I have found is that Aquinas holds that the eternity of the world cannot be disproven from reason alone, but it requires divine revelation, and if he holds this view then he certainly cannot be discussing temporally ordered series of cause and effect in his Second Way.

I also know that the distinction between the two kinds of cause and effect was defined by Duns Scotus. My question is whether Aquinas' idea of cause and effect was a causal series per se or is that something that later Scholastics and Thomists tacked onto his arguments to make them more sound.

Chit-Chat » Academic Journals » 9/16/2015 2:00 pm

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Hey everyone. I was wondering if anyone subscribes to and could recommend any academic journals or publications about philosophy or theology?

Theoretical Philosophy » Reading the Summa Theologica/Aquinas » 9/02/2015 1:46 am

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Hey everyone.  I was wondering if anyone could give me any advice on reading the Summa and Aquinas' writings in general.  I think I have a good grasp of Thomistic thought after having read Feser's books Aquinas and The Last Superstition.  Now I'm thinking of ways I can approach reading Thomas' writings, specifically the Summa.  Are there any good commentaries for the Summa?

Introductions » Hey Everyone » 8/07/2015 4:22 pm

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I'm not necessarily new to the blog since I've been on for a couple weeks now, but I just noticed I never introduced myself.  

My name is Nathan, I am a Roman Catholic, and I am currently an undergraduate music student in California.  However, I feel like I am called to study theology for graduate school so that I can teach it as a career--so if anyone has any advice for me that would be much appreciated.  I found this forum like most of you found it, through Ed Feser's blog.  I'm still a bit new to the philosophy, metaphysics, and theology of classical theism, but I find it incredibly interesting and enjoyable to learn.  Thanks for putting this forum together I've already learned a lot in my couple weeks of surfing.  

Theoretical Philosophy » Aristotle and Aquinas' idea of cause and effect » 8/04/2015 3:48 pm

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I understand this now.  Thank you all for your help!

Theoretical Philosophy » Aristotle and Aquinas' idea of cause and effect » 8/02/2015 3:15 pm

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 I think I understand now.  I think the issue I was caught up with is the idea of what a cause actually is.  In the brick example illustrated in the book I was thinking more that the throwing of the brick was the cause of the glass shattering, rather than the chair going through the window. In this case the cause and effect are happening simultaneously.  Am I correct in saying this?  

Theoretical Philosophy » Aristotle and Aquinas' idea of cause and effect » 7/31/2015 5:43 pm

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John West wrote:

Every cause and its effect happens simultaneously.

By simultaneously do we then mean that both cause and effect are the same event rather than happening at the same moment in time?

Theoretical Philosophy » Aristotle and Aquinas' idea of cause and effect » 7/31/2015 12:12 pm

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John West wrote:

Thomists draw a distinction between per accidens causal series and per se causal series[1].

Does this mean that Thomists don't think that all cause and effect events happen at the same time, rather that there are two types of cause and effect events: one that happens chronologically and one that happens simultaneously?
 

Theoretical Philosophy » Aristotle and Aquinas' idea of cause and effect » 7/30/2015 8:04 pm

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I was wondering if someone could elaborate on the idea that Feser talks about in his book Aquinas on page 21 that causes and effects happen simultaneously.  This seems to be an extremely important idea, especially when looking at Aquinas' first and second way.   

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