Category: Culture
Irrefutable, Impeccable, Inescapable: Aquinas’ Second Way
Every grain of sand is a link in an essential causal chain.
Essence and Existence in Modern Science
St. Thomas laid the intellectual groundwork for modern natural science — the absolute distinction between existence and essence.
Essence and Existence: The Cornerstone of Thomistic Metaphysics
I can describe anything you like in whatever detail you like, but you can’t know whether it exists or not merely by its description.
Censors Silenced Eric Hedin, but They Couldn’t Silence David Gelernter: Here’s Why It Matters
Against Yale polymath David Gelernter, atheist Jerry Coyne had to resort to engaging the actual arguments.
Aquinas’ First Way and a Stack of Books
Nature is like a stack of books, sessile, until moved.