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St. Thomas Aquinas: September 2014
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The pursuit of wisdom especially joins man to God in friendship.". Tuesday, September 30, 2014. Angelic nature, knowledge, will, merit and demerit from Reality: A Synthesis of Thomistic Thought. Chapter 23: Angelic Nature And Knowledge. 1 Nature Of Angels. A further consequence. The nature of his ideas, at once universal and concrete, make the angel's knowledge intuitive, not in any way successive and discursive. He sees at a glance the particular in the universal, the conclusion in the principle...For t...
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G.K. Chesterton: October 2014
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Discover the wit and wisdom of Gilbert Keith Chesterton. A promptitude of poetry". 8220;IT is merely that when a man has found something which he prefers to life, he then for the first time begins to live. A promptitude of poetry opens in his soul of which our paltry experiences do not possess the key. When once he has despised this world as mere instrument, it has become a musical instrument; it falls into certain artistic harmonies around him.”. GK Chesterton: Lunacy and Letters. Posted by Thomas Yonan.
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Christopher Dawson: April 2015
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Historian of Religion and Culture. Thursday, April 30, 2015. The American way of life was built on a threefold tradition.". According to the old American system, the state or states were concerned with the preservation of law and order and national independence. Everything else—religion, education and economic life—was the sphere of free individual action in which the state had no voice. All this, has been changed in the last hundred years by inevitable historical forces. Posted by Thomas Yonan. Renaissa...
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G.K. Chesterton: "The new rebel is a skeptic"
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Discover the wit and wisdom of Gilbert Keith Chesterton. The new rebel is a skeptic". Chap III.—The Suicide of Thought. Posted by Thomas Yonan. Thank you for sharing your thoughts. I truly appreciate your effort in sharing this informative articles. Very impressive and quite interesting for the readers. Good job. I admired those who has able to create a blog as wonderful as this! You are truly a hard working person. Keep up the good work and keep on posting. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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St. Thomas Aquinas: The Aquinas Prayer Book
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The pursuit of wisdom especially joins man to God in friendship.". Saturday, August 15, 2015. The Aquinas Prayer Book. O MOST blessed and sweet Virgin Mary,. Mother of God, filled with all tenderness,. Daughter of the most high King,. Lady of the Angels,. Mother of all the faithful,. On this day and all the days of my life,. I entrust to your merciful heart my body and my soul,. All my acts, thoughts, choices,. Desires, words, deeds,. My entire life and death,. So that, with your assistance,. And obtain ...
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St. Thomas Aquinas: January 2015
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The pursuit of wisdom especially joins man to God in friendship.". Tuesday, January 27, 2015. Legitimate authority and obedience. Power may not stem from God for two reasons: it may be defective either in its origins or in its exercise. St Thomas Aquinas: Commentary, II Sentences. XLIV, ii. 2. Selected and translated by Thomas Gilby. Allegory of the Good Government, by Ambrogio Lorenzetti. Fresco, 1338-40; Palazzo Pubblico, Siena. Posted by Thomas Yonan. ACCORDING to the Philosopher ( Ethic. The first is...
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G.K. Chesterton: November 2014
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Discover the wit and wisdom of Gilbert Keith Chesterton. He is bent on being a jolly journalist". YOU will not change Gilbert, you will only fidget him. He is bent on being a jolly journalist, to paint the town red, and he does not need style to do that. All he wants is buckets and buckets of red paint.". Mrs Frances Chesterton to Fr. O'Connor: quoted in Gilbert Keith Chesterton. The definitive biography by Maisie Ward. See also, Frances Chesterton. Article by Nancy Carpentier Brown. 8226; The Collected ...
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G.K. Chesterton: Portrait of a Friend
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Discover the wit and wisdom of Gilbert Keith Chesterton. Portrait of a Friend. On Hilaire Belloc: 27 July 1870 – 16 July 1953]. We kept the Rabelaisian plan. We dignified the dainty cloisters. With Natural Law, the Rights of Man,. Song, Stoicism, Wine and Oysters. We taught the art of writing things. On men we still would like to throttle,. And where to get the blood of kings. At only half-a-crown a bottle. And I thought how hugely flattered Belloc would be. I have not yet ceased casting my pearls.".
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G.K. Chesterton: "The human intellect is free to destroy itself"
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Discover the wit and wisdom of Gilbert Keith Chesterton. The human intellect is free to destroy itself". Why should not good logic be as misleading as bad logic? They are both movements in the brain of a bewildered ape? The young sceptic says, "I have a right to think for myself." But the old sceptic, the complete sceptic, says, "I have no right to think for myself. I have no right to think at all.". Chap III.—The Suicide of Thought. Posted by Thomas Yonan. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Stanley L. Jaki: July 2016
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Stanley L. Jaki. Historian and Philosopher of Science. Tuesday, July 26, 2016. Cognitive unity with nature". THE important point for the historian of science is that Aquinas gave to a broadly shared rational conviction a concise formulation which had symbolic power…. He (Aquinas) noted that it is natural for man to be in cognitive unity with nature.". Fr Stanley L. Jaki: The Road of Science and the Ways to God. The Triumph of St. Thomas Aquinas, by Andrea da Firenze. Posted by Thomas Yonan.
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