St. Thomas Aquinas’s Works in English

https://isidore.co/aquinas/

TikTok Channel for Theology and Philosophy

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“In true liberal education... the essential activity of the student is to relate the facts learned into a unified, organic whole, to assimilate them as...the rose assimilates food from the soil and increases in size, vitality, and beauty.”

The Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric

William Shakespeare: The Complete Plays

https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/19bde485-a9c1-4809-8884-e872b2b67b44

The life of study is austere and imposes grave obligations. It pays, it pays richly; but it exacts an initial outlay that few are capable of. The athletes of the mind, like those of the playing field, must be prepared for privations, long training, a sometimes superhuman tenacity. We must give ourselves from the heart, if truth is to give itself to us. Truth serves only its slaves.

Sertillanges, A.D.. THE INTELLECTUAL LIFE, Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods - Sertillanges (p. 7). Lebooks Editora. Kindle Edition.

Why I don't take atheists and skeptics seriously(Part I):

Syllogism 1 – On Logic and Philosophy

Major premise: Anyone who dismisses a system as “illogical” must first understand its best logical and philosophical arguments.

Minor premise: Many modern skeptics dismiss Christianity without studying its historic theologians and philosophers (e.g., Augustine, Aquinas, Luther, Anselm and post Reformation scholastics) who rigorously applied logic, philosophy, and multiple languages.

Conclusion: Many modern skeptics dismiss Christianity’s logic without understanding it, which is itself illogical.

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Syllogism 2 – On Intellectual Tradition

Major premise: An intellectually shallow tradition cannot produce centuries of profound philosophical, theological, and scientific works.

Minor premise: Christianity has produced such works across history, influencing law, ethics, literature, science, and politics.

Conclusion: Therefore, Christianity is not intellectually shallow, making the “anti-intellectual” accusation historically ignorant.


Syllogism 3 – On Skeptical Irony

Major premise: Rejecting a tradition without studying it is an act of ignorance.

Minor premise: Modern atheists often reject Christianity without engaging its deep intellectual tradition.

Conclusion: Therefore, modern atheists sometimes reject Christianity on the very grounds (ignorance) they accuse Christians of.

Scheibler, Christoph. Work of Logic in Four Parts

"Philosophy is the knowledge of existing things as they are, that is, of their nature. Philosophy is the knowledge of things both divine and human, that is, of visible and invisible things. Philosophy is the meditation on natural death. For life is twofold: the natural, according to which we live; and the elective, by which we more intensely affect and strive to retain the present life. For death is twofold: the natural, which is the separation of the soul from the body; and the elective, by which we scorn the present life for the future one to which we are redeemed. Philosophy, item, is to be made like God, which happens, both through wisdom, that is, the true knowledge of the good, and through justice, which equitably gives to each his own, and
does not judge out of respect for persons; and then finally through sanctity, which exceeds justice. For it is characteristic of the good to do good to those in whom it resides.

Philosophy, moreover, is the art of arts, and the science of sciences: for Philosophy is the mother of every art. Some, however, distinguish art from science in this way, that the latter is more certain than the former, and while the former sometimes errs, the latter never does. Others, indeed, distinguish them such that art is whatever is carried out by the ministry of the hands; while Science is truly every rational art. Namely, Grammar, Rhetoric, and the like. Philosophy, finally, is the love of wisdom: but God is true wisdom. Therefore, the love for God is, in the end, true Philosophy

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