Mediæval Philosophy

Philosophy from between about 400 and 1400 (with exceptions, esp. #Aristotle, #Suárez).
Managed by @Boaz_Schuman

[Mediæval Philosophy @MedievalThought]

"To love is to will the good of the other"
—Thomas #Aquinas (ST II-II.26.6)
#love

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Confessions II.14
#Augustine https://t.co/U2RRqYSx5v

[Aristotelian Thomist @AThomist]

2. “Therefore, if the present, so as to be time, must be such that it passes into the past, how can we say that it is, since the cause of its being is the fact that it will cease to be? Can we not truly say that it is time only because it tends towards non-being?”

[Medieval Latin @MedievalLatin]

Scotizare (1):
—to 'Scotize'; to do #philosophy following John Duns #Scotus

(Coined by Petrus Thomae: de Ente Q.13)

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"The faculty of the mind which judges whether the representation is beautiful or ugly is without doubt superior to the object judged of."
—#Augustine
(City of God VIII.5)

[Medieval Latin @MedievalLatin]

Ex peccato autem homo incurrerat non solum mortem corporis, sed etiam descensum ad Inferos.
Et ideo, sicut fuit conveniens eum mori ut nos liberaret a morte, ita conveniens fuit eum descendere ad Inferos ut nos a descensu ad Inferos liberaret.
—Thomas #Aquinas (STIII.52.1.c)#hell

[NeoplAT @NeoplAT9_16]

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"When a thing is beneficial by its essence or nature, it should not be avoided merely because of something harmful contained in it by accident" —you wouldn't prevent a thirsty person from drinking water, just because some people have choked to death!
—#Averroes ('Decisive' I.14)

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"O happy humankind, if your hearts are ruled by the same #love as that which governs the heavens!"
—#Boethius
(de Consol. VIII.28-30)

[Pieter Beullens @PieterBeullens]

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https://t.co/ilJsXQwxmz

[LeuvenUP @LeuvenUP]

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[Medieval Latin @MedievalLatin]

Creabilis (-e; #adjective)
—That can be created; creatable.
(A #scholastic coinage; fr. "Creo, -are", "To create, beget, cause").
#medieval

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"Everyone naturally seeks out knowledge, just as matter seeks form" —Thomas #Aquinas (Commentary on the #Metaphysics I.2). #Aristotle

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Summa Theologiae I-IIae 2.8

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"Man's summit touches the base of angelic nature, by way of likeness; but he reaches out to the universal fount of #good itself" —#Aquinas

[Medieval Latin @MedievalLatin]

"Those things that are per se different do not come together into a unified whole, except through a unifying cause."—#Aquinas (ST I.3.7)

[Medieval Latin @MedievalLatin]

Suppositiō (-ōnis f)
—Supposition; how a term stands for the object it refers to
—Substitution
(freq. in #Ockham, #Buridan, et al.) #logic

[Mediæval Philosophy @MedievalThought]

@blackthought @DanielPeavey what do you think of that?

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@blackthought @DanielPeavey #Aristotle: earth (element) has a natural inclination to move downwards. This predicts that the #earth is round.

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Form + matter —but why? A new post on "Subtle Matters": https://t.co/lC5CyS7PCp #Aristotle #physics #philosophy

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@jcantsleep Yet there's nothing about this distinction that presupposes substance dualism. (#Aristotle himself might've been a #materialist)