Gateway to the Great Books: Philosophical essaysRobert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Jerome Adler Encyclopędia Britannica, 1963 - 644 pages Complements Great Books of the Western World; includes only short works and excerpts from longer works. |
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Page 425
... Thomas ' architecture , like any other work of art , is best studied by itself as though he created it outright ; otherwise a tourist would never get beyond its threshold . Beginning with the foundation which is God and God's active ...
... Thomas ' architecture , like any other work of art , is best studied by itself as though he created it outright ; otherwise a tourist would never get beyond its threshold . Beginning with the foundation which is God and God's active ...
Page 429
... Thomas ' creation nothing intervened between God and his world ; secondary causes became orna- ments ; only two forces , God and man , stood in the Church . The chapter of Creation is so serious , and Thomas ' creation , like every ...
... Thomas ' creation nothing intervened between God and his world ; secondary causes became orna- ments ; only two forces , God and man , stood in the Church . The chapter of Creation is so serious , and Thomas ' creation , like every ...
Page 434
... Thomas and his scholars must chiefly exist , cannot do battle because they cannot understand Thomas ' doctrine of matter and form which to them seems frank pantheism . So it appeared to Duns Scotus also , if one may assert in the Doctor ...
... Thomas and his scholars must chiefly exist , cannot do battle because they cannot understand Thomas ' doctrine of matter and form which to them seems frank pantheism . So it appeared to Duns Scotus also , if one may assert in the Doctor ...
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