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Robert McNamara, Patrick FlynnPhilosophers in the Thomistic tradition who wish to think things through together with others.
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Thomism: Substance & Accidents
As is well known, Aquinas receives and adopts the Aristotelian division of the genera of being (genera entis) into ten modes of being (modus essendi) and predication (modus praedicandi). This means that everything we recognize has or posses...
Thomism: Nature—Form & Matter
The English ‘nature’ is a cognate of the Latin ‘natura,’ which traces its roots into the idea of generation and birth. From this we get the sense that nature and the natural world is primarily understood in light of the ongoing cycle of the...
The Doctrine of Divine Simplicity
This post is a guest post from a fellow dumb ox and friend of Gaven Kerr and myself, the powerful of the Journal of Absolute Truth and Philosophy for the People.
The other day, a friend and fellow Catholic asked me what the subject...
Thomism: Creator and Creation
‘God saw that the light was good.’ (Genesis 1:4)
In my first essay on fundamental Thomistic teachings I outlined the two most foundational principles of the Thomistic worldview, those of being (esse) and essence (essentia), together with t...
¬ 'I compute, therefore I am.'
This is a talk I gave at a symposium for in Ireland at St. Patrick’s Pontifical University, Maynooth, on the theme of ‘Being Human in the Age of AI’ on April 11th 2026, alongside Ezra Sullivan OP, , Gaven Kerr, and .
You will rej...
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