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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...
Aquinas versus Camus
‘Nothing to be done.’[1]
These are the words of Estragon, of Samuel Beckett’s play Waiting for Godot—the opening lines of a work of the genre aptly called ‘Theatre of the Absurd.’[2] Writing in post-war France, Beckett was moving...
Being and Essence in Thomism
In a previous essay I noted that Aquinas affirms that ‘being is the actuality of all acts and, therefore, the perfection of all perfections.’ I there also indicated that this maximal statement should be taken with all seriousness, as it rev...
The Substantiality of the Person
At the dawn of the medieval era, a Christian philosopher-theologian, Anicius Boëthius (480–524 AD), was the first to formulate a philosophical definition of the person. After the term had been incorporated into the definitions capturing the...
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