Previous post. Be sure and review and understand what our saint meant by “the good”. Even beings devoid of knowledge seek the good 1 Now, if a celestial body is moved by […]
Summary Against Modern Thought: The Motion Of The Heavens
Previous post. This looks like a lot, but it is not that difficult. Our saint moves us swiftly through each argument. There is much to learn from this, even though, as the […]
Summary Against Modern Thought: How Things Are Ordered To Their Ends
Summary Against Modern Thought: How Things Imitate Divine Goodness Previous post. Question: What is the final cause? Answer: Yes. How Things Are Ordered To Their Ends In Their Various Ways 1 It […]
Summary Against Modern Thought: Become More Godlike
Previous post. Review! We skipped a week because of Easter, and memories are short. That things naturally tend to become like God inasmuch as He is a cause 1 As a result, […]
Summary Against Modern Thought: How Things Imitate Divine Goodness
Previous post. In which our God saint defines his terms. Be careful to use the words in the sense he used them, at least while discussing him. How things imitate divine goodness […]
Summary Against Modern Thought: How God Is The End Of All Things
Previous post. A continuation of last week’s lesson. Two Chapter this week. How God Is The End Of All Things 1 Now, it appears that the preceding view may be opposed by […]
Summary Against Modern Thought: All Things Are Ordered To God
Previous post. Some simple and, I hope, non-controversial (accepting that which came before) proofs that God is the ultimate end. That All Things Are Ordered to One End Who Is God 1 […]
Summary Against Modern Thought: There Is No Highest Evil
Previous post. The good is “that which all things desire.” With that, and in these two chapters, we wrap up the subject of evil. We next time move to the good, and […]
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