Fides_et_Ratio Posted September 23, 2006 Author Share Posted September 23, 2006 lol, I thought I recognized this thread! We went over it again in my Metaphysics class with a much better prof and I think I have a better grasp of St. Thomas' opinion on the matter. Though I still find it highly interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laudate_Dominum Posted September 23, 2006 Share Posted September 23, 2006 [quote name='Fides_et_Ratio' post='1072604' date='Sep 23 2006, 09:37 AM'] lol, I thought I recognized this thread! We went over it again in my Metaphysics class with a much better prof and I think I have a better grasp of St. Thomas' opinion on the matter. Though I still find it highly interesting. [/quote] yeah, I think its pretty sweet too. hmmm.. maybe we should debate the matter (no pun intended). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fides_et_Ratio Posted September 23, 2006 Author Share Posted September 23, 2006 a debate would be interesting... but it would have to wait until a big break from school... and for the record, I wasn't nuts.. "De Aeternitate Mundi" [url="http://www.corpusthomisticum.org/ocm.html"]http://www.corpusthomisticum.org/ocm.html[/url] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theoketos Posted September 23, 2006 Share Posted September 23, 2006 Matter always exsisting in time would be fine... And Aquinas agrees with Aristotle in the Metaphysics that one cannot know through reason alone whether there has always been matter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laudate_Dominum Posted September 23, 2006 Share Posted September 23, 2006 [quote name='Theoketos' post='1072701' date='Sep 23 2006, 11:55 AM'] Matter always exsisting in time would be fine... And Aquinas agrees with Aristotle in the Metaphysics that one cannot know through reason alone whether there has always been matter. [/quote] they didn't have the luxury of modern physics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aloysius Posted September 23, 2006 Share Posted September 23, 2006 [quote name='Fides_et_Ratio' post='712905' date='Sep 6 2005, 08:11 AM'] I suppose. Maybe I was just mixing up Aristotle's cosmology... or maybe it was just another philosopher completely outside of Catholicism. lol. Oh well. I shall try to explain myself tomorrow, I guess. [/quote] well, Aristotle did devote a whole essay of sorts to defending Aristotle's idea of an eternal world philosophically, and said that a world created in time could only be known through revelation. of course he didn't actually hold the view of a world not created in time, that would have made him a heretic. but his philosophy held that possibility Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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