248. Scott MacDonald on Aquinas
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Scott MacDonald joins Peter to discuss Thomas Aquinas' views on human knowledge.
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Further Reading
• S. MacDonald and E. Stumps (eds), Aquinas’s Moral Theory: Essays in Honor of Norman Kretzmann (Ithaca NY: 1999).
• S. MacDonald (ed.), Being and Goodness: The Concept of the Good in Metaphysics and Philosophical Theology (Ithaca NY: 1991).
• S. MacDonald “Foundations in Aquinas’s Moral Theory,” Social Philosophy and Policy 25 (2008), 350-67.
• S. MacDonald, “Aquinas’s Ultimate Ends: A Reply to Grisez,” American Journal of Jurisprudence 46 (2001), 37-49.
• S. MacDonald, “Aquinas’s Libertarian Account of Free Choice,” Revue Internationale de Philosophie 52 (1998), 309-28.
Episodes 225 - 264: Thirteenth Century
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Thank you
This series of podcasts is quite extraordinary and has clearly involved an enormous amount of intellectual effort. I am full of admiration. Thank you so much.
Revelation
I like the thoughts on Revelation
Universality and particularity of forms
Another great episode! As always, thanks.
The way I prefer to think of the Thomistic understanding of form is in terms of Object Oriented Programming: a form is a "virtual abstract class." It has a definition but no realization; individuals are instantiations of the class.
I could be wrong, maybe quite wrong. But I am surprised by the consonance I see of OOP with Aristotle and St. Thomas.
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