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Civic and Religious Understanding of the Mentally Ill, Incompetent, and Disabled of Medieval England
Posted on May 20, 2013 | No CommentsThis brief summary covered the fourth paper given at KZOO's Mental Health in Non-medical Terms. It covered ways in which theologians, like Thomas Aquinas, tried to categorize mental disability. Aquinas also tried to prove that the mentally impaired were able to receive sacraments depending their lucidity and where they fit in his four categories. It was an interesting and enjoyable paper. -
Rule by Natural Reason: Late Medieval and early Renaissance conceptions of political corruption
Posted on April 17, 2013 | No CommentsThis paper argues that, from about the eleventh century CE, a new and distinctive model of corruption accompanied the rediscovery and increased availability of a number of classical texts and ideals, particularly those of Cicero and the Roman Jurists. -
Foolishness and Fools in Aquinas’s Analysis
Posted on March 31, 2013 | No CommentsFools are legion. This self-evident truth, vouched for by Holy Scripture, is quoted more than twenty times by Thomas Aquinas: 'stultorum infinitus est numerus'. -
Origins of the Medieval Theory That Sensation Is an Immaterial Reception of a Form
Posted on December 26, 2012 | No CommentsLet me begin my own discussion of Aquinas by saying that it seems to me that Cohen adequately proved that it was a mistake to view the sensible form as existing in the soul rather than the organ, and that Aquinas is not denying to the sensible form as received by the sensor a place in the physical world, or indeed physical existence, when he says it exists immaterially or spiritually. -
The Virtuous Pagan in Middle English Literature
Posted on September 14, 2012 | No CommentsFrom the first through the fourteenth centuries, a succession of solutions to the problem of these virtuous pagans evolved. For the Early Church, an attractive solution was that Christ descended into Hell to convert the souls he found there. -
The Making of Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae
Posted on September 3, 2012 | No CommentsBernard McGinn explores Thomas’s reason for writing the Summa and its principles, structure, and originality. -
The Symbolical Career of Georgios Gemistos Plethon
Posted on September 2, 2012 | No CommentsThus Gemistos was the first who in an authoritative way attacked the hegemony of Aristotle in western thought. -
Qui coierit cum muliere in fluxu menstruo… interficientur ambo (Lev. 20:18) – The Biblical Prohibition of Sexual Relations with a Menstruant in the Eyes of Some Medieval Christian Theologians
Posted on August 20, 2012 | No CommentsWhat attitudes did medieval Christian theologians have towards the prohibition in Leviticus of sexual relations with a menstruating woman? -
Eriugena: The Medieval Irish Genius Between Augustine and Aquinas
Posted on August 17, 2012 | No CommentsCarolingian thinker Johannes Scottus Eriugena (810-877 CE) is the author of numerous philosophical and theological works. -
The emotion of Shame in Medieval Philosophy
Posted on June 20, 2012 | No CommentsIn his Summa theologiae, Thomas Aquinas presents a very detailed taxonomy of emotions which is influenced by some earlier medieval theories. -
Charity as the Perfection of Natural Friendship in Aquinas’ Summa Theologiae
Posted on June 6, 2012 | No CommentsWithin western civilization, there is a long-running dispute over which authority, the Christian tradition or Greek philosophical tradition, is the more trustworthy and comprehensive. Like other topics written about by Plato and Aristotle, friendship became part of this controversy. During Thomas Aquinas' time, this struggle was focused on whether the works of Aristotle could be reconciled with Christianity. -
Charity, War, and Peace in St. Thomas Aquinas
Posted on May 3, 2012 | No CommentsThomas’s treatment of the problem of war in the Summa Theologiae is refreshingly simple. -
The Spiritual and the Supernatural according to Thomas Aquinas
Posted on October 16, 2011 | No CommentsThe Spiritual and the Supernatural according to Thomas Aquinas Murray, Andrew A paper delivered at the Biennial Conference in Philosophy, Religion and Culture, ‘The Supernatural’, Catholic Institute of Sydney, 3... -
The Aesthetics of Marriage in The Canterbury Tales
Posted on August 31, 2011 | No CommentsThe Aesthetics of Marriage in The Canterbury Tales Kuo, Ju-ping M.A. Thesis, The Institute of Foreign Languages and Literature, June 23 (2003) Abstract This thesis aims to interpret the elements... -
Why the Medieval Idea of a Community-Oriented University is Still Modern
Posted on August 18, 2011 | No CommentsWhy the Medieval Idea of a Community-Oriented University is Still Modern Köddermann, Achim Educational Change (Spring 1995) Abstract This essay examines the medieval concept of the university, explores applications and... -
Some Educational Aspects in England in the 16th Century
Posted on August 18, 2011 | No CommentsSome Educational Aspects in England in the 16th Century Pacheco Lucas, Margarita (University of Extremadura – Cáceres) Proceedings of the II Conference of SEDERI (1992) It is well known that... -
God, the Devil, and Cupid: A Tripartite Formula for a Sinful Death
Posted on August 3, 2011 | No CommentsGod, the Devil, and Cupid: A Tripartite Formula for a Sinful Death Leaños, Jaime (University of Nevada – Reno) eHumanista: Volume 9, (2007) Abstract Can there be evil without good?... -
Towards Modernity and Absolute Power: Interpretation of Kingship in
Posted on August 2, 2011 | No CommentsTowards Modernity and Absolute Power: Interpretation of Kingship in The Book of the Twelve Wise Men and The Seven Books of Law McLean, Benjamin Transcultural Studies: A Series in Interdisciplinary... -
A Tale of Two Wonderworkers: St. Nicholas of Myra in the Writings and Life of St. Thomas Aquinas
Posted on June 27, 2011 | No CommentsA Tale of Two Wonderworkers: St. Nicholas of Myra in the Writings and Life of St. Thomas Aquinas By Peter A. Kwasniewski Angelicum, Vol. 82 (2005) Introduction: “The theology of... -
The Medieval Synthesis, by Professor Keith Ward
Posted on June 10, 2011 | No CommentsThe Medieval Synthesis Lecture by Professor Keith Ward Given at Gresham College on December 7, 2007 Religion and Philosophy. Aquinas and Aristotle. The Christain Rationalists – Anselm and Abelard. The... -
Hero or Tyrant: Images of Julius Caesar in Selected Works from Vergil to Bruni
Posted on June 9, 2011 | No CommentsHero or Tyrant: Images of Julius Caesar in Selected Works from Vergil to Bruni By Sarah M. Loose Master’s Thesis, Brigham Young University, 2007 Abstract: Gaius Julius Caesar is not... -
The Legal Character of Natural Law According to St. Thomas Aquinas
Posted on March 20, 2011 | No CommentsThe Legal Character of Natural Law According to St. Thomas Aquinas By Stephen L. Brock PhD Dissertation, University of Toronto, 1988 Abstract: The claim is that Aquinas conceives of natural... -
Can Atheism be Rational? A Reading of Thomas Aquinas
Posted on January 10, 2011 | No CommentsCan Atheism be Rational? A Reading of Thomas Aquinas BROCK, STEPHEN L. Acta Philosophica, vol. 11 (2002) Abstract Does St Thomas Aquinas have anything to teach us on the subject of... -
If God is eternal
Posted on January 8, 2011 | No CommentsIf God is eternal Muller, Pe. Dilonei Pedro Mirabilia 11, Tempo e Eternidade na Idade Média, Jun-Dez (2010) Abstract This study focuses on comprehending some of the aspects about God’s eternity in... -
MENTAL EXISTENCE IN THOMAS AQUINAS AND AVICENNA
Posted on December 14, 2010 | No CommentsMENTAL EXISTENCE IN THOMAS AQUINAS AND AVICENNA Black, Deborah L. Mediaeval Studies, Vol. 61 (1999) Abstract Traditionally it was the case that in philosophical circles, when the name of Thomas Aquinas...