Damien de Pyle

Thomist, Author/Writer, Catholic 🇻🇦, Veteran.

[Damien de Pyle @DamiendePyle]

One step closer!

All of the books in Fr Edouard Hugon's Course in Thomistic Philosophy have been translated and formatted.

The last task is to add the footnotes and make all of the necessary revisions to the translations to make sure it is accurate and readable.

Very exciting.

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@StuffForSisters No thanks

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Just saw this in Sydney.

We are so back!

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@HazThomist Very nice.

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@Thomisticae Pure ragebait.

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@carbo_al Imagine living with them...

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@carbo_al We still have some work to do.

[Astro @Thomisticae]

IT IS READY!

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Daily affirmation:

St. Thomas is second to none, both in philosophy and sacred theology.

[Damien de Pyle @DamiendePyle]

@Metheglin2800 @TLM_Ryan @CatholicRob I wrote an indepth treatment of Usury here: https://t.co/XFncJoUYMv

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@Thomisticae How people can believe Molinism unironically.

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@Vermeullarmine It's the referee.

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@HazThomist Very based.

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@metathomist It was an absolute banger tweet.

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@Sola_Requiem I thought it was the Syphilis.

[Damien de Pyle @DamiendePyle]

Plenty of Scholastics also held to the designation theory as well. Fr Henri Grenier, Cardinal Ottaviani, Cardinal Zigliara, Cardinal Billot, Pope St Pius X, Pope Leo XIII, and others.

I think it's arguable that the "transmission theory" is one of the erroneous positions that was held by the Sillonists condemned in Nostre Charge Apostolique.

Feser doesn't address any of the arguments put forward by designation theorists like how can the community as a whole be a subject of political authority (Zigliara's argument), or that this would entail that democracy is divinely instituted by nature (Ottaviani's argument) and others.

Designation theory is the best position in this debate. Ottaviani does a great job explaining why.

[Edward Feser @FeserEdward]

On the later Scholastics’ conception of political power and its relationship to liberalism and postliberalism. “The transmission theory of authority,” over at the blog: https://t.co/7KY8E3sJf6

[Damien de Pyle @DamiendePyle]

@HazThomist That probably describes most Torys though.

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I knew he was a buffoon, but I didn't realise he was an idiot.

[Boris Johnson @BorisJohnson]

Falling birth rates aren’t a disaster, they’re the best bit of global news in a long time

https://t.co/mEBocMP0hi

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@Duarte_T_Mota Not a fan, but let me assure you that its nothing personal.

[Damien de Pyle @DamiendePyle]

Listen to the Maritainians if you want to follow a position that is condemned in Nostre Charge Apostolique and the consequences of that position.

Many theologians see a large tension, if not opposition, between the transference theory of authority expressed by Maritainians like Simon and Journet and Pope Pius X's encyclical.

These theologians include:

Cardinal Alphonsus Ottaviani, Gabriel Bowe OP (in his incredible work on this issue "The Origin of Political Authority"), and others.

[Matthew Minerd @PhilCatholic]

If you want to understand better Catholic political philosophy, read these books:

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Extremely sad day in the UK.

Tradition and good governance is being scrapped for what? The Mandelson class.

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

Keir Starmer completed the process of removing all hereditary peers from the House of Lords yesterday

It was the end of the 700-year-old tradition

It was initially thought the office of the Lord Great Chamberlain would be spared as it dates back to 1138, but it also disappeared

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@HazThomist *rationally ensouled.