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How can Aquinas prove that the first mover is not only unmoved, but also unmovable?
So, basically, I think Aquinas can prove effectively that there should be a first mover. Here, I'm refering to the First Way, more specifically, for I was reading Feser's book, from which the question ...
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Does hylomorphism have anything to do with the extremely broad use of "form" in scholasticism?
Introductions to the Aristotelian concept of form always begin with hylomorphism: everyday objects (like horses) are composed of matter and form. The form is the intelligibility of the thing (e.g., ...
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Is it true that "What is supreme in a genus is cause of everything in the genus"?
Among the more popular scholastic axioms is the following:
What is supreme in a genus is cause of everything in the genus.
But what is the justification for this principle? Aquinas tends to justify ...
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What do we mean when we talk about Aristotelianism?
Let's say that "Aristotelianism" is a philosophical "view" based on Aristotle's thought. Let's say that the contents of this "view" are those presented in the Corpus ...
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Who first said: "Never deny, seldom affirm, always distinguish"?
In the context of medieval scholastic disputations, what is the origin of the axiom "Never deny, seldom affirm, always distinguish" ("Numquam negare, raro affirmare, semper distinguere&...
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What are some examples of inmanent causes and effects in everyday nature?
Reading Spinoza's Ethics I find myself fascinated by the distinction bewteen inmanent cause and transitive cause.
In the Ethics comes like so:
E1 PROP. 18. God is the indwelling and not the transient ...
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I would like to learn about theory of supposition. Can you recommend any good books/video/etc about it?
I encountered following syllogism as an example of false equitation:
Man is a species
Socrates is a man
Therefore, Socrates is a species
The text ("An Introduction to Traditional Logic" by ...
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What does mean “realitas objectiva” in scholastic ontology?
Descartes uses the term in his third meditation (Med. III) to demonstrate the existence of God, see a previous question.
The term “realitas objectiva” is a technical term from scholastic ontology.
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Does absolute eternality entail timelessness?
Assuming one is committed to the idea that an actual infinite amount of time can never pass, does eternality entail timelessness?
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Is modern mathematics scholasticism?
I have thought a lot a about mathematics and it's foundations. There have been several attempts to give it a solid foundation, and they all failed. Frege / Russell logical atomist approach failed, ...
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Within scholastics, how does animals' perception work, when compared to humans' apprehension of universals?
In the study of scholastic philosophy, I'm struggling with this question for a while:
It seems like dogs do know what dogs are. Aquinas states that animals have perception, capable of complex ...
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On the ontology of ideas
There's a useful summary of the subject of universals in the public domain Encyclopedia.com. In it, we read:
Realist and conceptualist theories of universals are, by long tradition, regarded as ...
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