Joseph Hannon has expressed a most surprising objection to Aquinas scholar Prof William E. Carroll in his latest paper “Theological Objections Metaphysicalist Interpretation of Creation.” The main claim is that Prof. misunderstands Aquinas' doctrine creatio ex nihilo by reducing it metaphysical notion, rather than considering its full theological sense. In this I show Hannon's misinterpretation...

Discussions of gratitude to God characteristically presuppose some philosophical or theological framework. This and exploration examines the topic in light thought Thomas Aquinas. Unlike treatments Aquinas’ account gratitude, I draw extensively on commentaries Scripture as well lesser known works, such his sermons, illuminate these topics rather than exclusively relying Summa theologiae. In fir...

John Rawls claims that the belief there is but one reasonable and rational conception of "the good" incompatible with political liberalism. A close examination thought Thomas Aquinas, however, reveals commitment to a particular need not imply rejection In fact, Aquinas' notion virtue anticipates Rawls' overlapping consensus. addition, thorough exploration work indicates that, for most part, he ...

The article analyses and interprets the basic structure of process intellectual cognition in Thomas Aquinas. After a short chapter on sense cognition, Aquinas?s understanding active intellect is presented, that illumination phantasms abstraction intelligible species by intellect. Special attention given to difference between phantasm species. Consideration possible shows two steps, reception cr...