{"title":"Philosophie des Mittelalters: Eine Einführung by Hannes Möhle","authors":"Brian Welter","doi":"10.26385/SG.090107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26385/SG.090107","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36983,"journal":{"name":"Studia Gilsoniana","volume":"9 1","pages":"191-197"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69276219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Human Dignity, Self-determination, and the Gospel: An Enquiry into St. John Paul II’s Personalism and its Implications for Evangelization","authors":"Gentry, J. Thomas","doi":"10.26385/SG.090209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26385/SG.090209","url":null,"abstract":"An Enquiry St. John Paul II’s Personalism and its Evangelization personalism is explored along the following lines of enquiry: What is personalism vis-à-vis JP II? What is the significance of human dignity and self-determination in JP II’s personalism? How might JP II’s personalism serve evangelization? Findings suggest that JP II’s philosophical personalism, especially at the nexus of its understanding of human dignity and self-determination, provides a robust and faith-fully Christian anthropology that can effectively inform efforts in evangelizing all persons, as all persons are image bearers of God that are necessarily self-determining and possessed of profound dignity and worth.","PeriodicalId":36983,"journal":{"name":"Studia Gilsoniana","volume":"9 1","pages":"237-251"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69276279","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"AI Can Never Think: The Uniqueness of Human Thought","authors":"Jason Nehez","doi":"10.26385/SG.090318","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26385/SG.090318","url":null,"abstract":"This was a near prophetic calculation based on what has come to be known as the “Turing Test.” In summary, it was the idea that were you to have a kind of game, where an interrogator questioned three entities who were hidden from sight, and she were to receive the answers via written correspondence, could she guess which of the responders were male, female, or machine. In February 2011, IBM’s Watson went up against the world’s leading Jeopardy stars and won! In near 50 years time the computer would not only seem to be able to pass the Turing test but surpass the best of human capability. In addition, Sophia the humanoid robot, has addressed the UN, has been on numerous talk and television shows, and","PeriodicalId":36983,"journal":{"name":"Studia Gilsoniana","volume":"9 1","pages":"467-492"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69276533","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Alteridad, indigencia y esperanza. Una lectura de la fenomenología de la plegaria según Jean-Louis Chrétien","authors":"Mario di Giacomo","doi":"10.26385/SG.090316","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26385/SG.090316","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36983,"journal":{"name":"Studia Gilsoniana","volume":"9 1","pages":"375-422"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69276371","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Political Philosophy and Human Nature in Thomas Aquinas","authors":"A. Akinwale","doi":"10.26385/SG.090315","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26385/SG.090315","url":null,"abstract":"This essay has a proximate and an ultimate aim. Its proximate aim is to undertake an analysis of Thomas Aquinas’ philosophy of law in the Summa theologiae . 1 Its ultimate aim is to discern what may be described, albeit arguably, as Aquinas’ political philosophy and its presupposed understanding of human nature. An undertaking such as this must take into account two sets of possible objections. In concrete terms, one is obliged to admit that, for at least two reasons, if there were to be recitation of a litany of political philosophers, the name of Thomas Aquinas would most probably not feature. Taking into account and responding to two sets of objections to Thomas Aquinas’ credentials as political philosopher, the essay examines his political philosophy, its presupposed understanding of human nature, and its portrayal in his philosophy of law. Analysing the defining features of law in Aquinas places before the reader features of human nature, namely, rationality, relationality and religiosity. These traits enable one to find responses to what Charles Taylor has identified as “three malaises” of contemporary society and culture, namely, individualism, instrumental reason, and the political consequences of both.","PeriodicalId":36983,"journal":{"name":"Studia Gilsoniana","volume":"9 1","pages":"343-374"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69276342","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Dispute over Delayed Animation: When Does a Human Being Begin?","authors":"Andrzej Maryniarczyk","doi":"10.26385/SG.090317","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26385/SG.090317","url":null,"abstract":"The dispute over delayed animation, although it has its beginnings already in ancient philosophy and culture, started for good only in contemporary times when the right to kill unborn children (so-called abortion ) entered the canon of constitutional law and, what is even stranger, started to be proposed for inclusion into basic human rights. Despite being discussed nowadays mainly in medical and legal sciences, the problem involves disputes of an ethical, religious and ideological nature. In these discussions one can notice a clear lack of anthropological and metaphysical argumentation that would address the question about the beginning of the human being (which entails the question about the beginning of being per se ) in the light of common properties that belong to really existing beings, and the metaphysical laws that govern the manner in which things (including human embryos) exist. This article discusses understandings of the human being as they are found in Plato’s, Aristotle’s and Thomas Aquinas’s philosophical anthropology. It is this triad of approaches: Platonic, Aristotelian and Thomistic, that allows one both to notice the specificity of Aquinas’s approach and to resolve the dispute concerning delayed animation.","PeriodicalId":36983,"journal":{"name":"Studia Gilsoniana","volume":"229 1","pages":"423-465"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69276429","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Effects of Beauty and the Redemption of the Ugly","authors":"Riofrio Martinez-Villalba, J. Carlos","doi":"10.26385/SG.080217","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26385/SG.080217","url":null,"abstract":"This paper aims to discuss the aftermath effects of beauty, the ugly, and the ways of how to get rid of the ugly. Firstly, we will attempt, in lieu of a definition of beauty, to examine the three classical conditions for beauty, which would otherwise be regarded as in some sense a mystery. Secondly, we will turn to the effects of beauty by analogy to the six effects of love as elucidated by Thomas Aquinas; in addition, we shall add three other effects of beauty found in classical Greek thought: catharsis, epiphany, and pleasure. Thirdly, we will review, by way of contrast, the corresponding effects of the ugly; as we do so, we shall propose just how the ugly may be “redeemed” by beauty.","PeriodicalId":36983,"journal":{"name":"Studia Gilsoniana","volume":"24 1","pages":"401-430"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69276022","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On Not Taking the World for Granted: E. L. Mascall on The Five Ways","authors":"W. P. Haggerty","doi":"10.26385/SG.080213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26385/SG.080213","url":null,"abstract":"Considered one of the leading proponents of natural theology in the 20 century, Eric Lionel Mascall (1905–1993) taught philosophy and theology at King’s College London for most of his career. Unlike many of his contemporaries, he insisted that classical theism, embodied in the writings of Augustine and Thomas Aquinas, could be successfully revived for a modern audience. Known for his vigorous defense of neo-Thomism, Mascall offered an unusual interpretation of The Five Ways. While modern scholastics typically read the proofs as syllogistic exercises, Mascall maintained that God’s existence could not be deduced, but must be grasped by way of a unique type of metaphysical intuition. In my paper, I want to re-examine his position, explore his reasons for adopting it, and raise several questions concerning its significance for the history of neo-Thomism. Let us take a closer look at his position. In his initial remarks, Mascall suggests that each of the Ways can be represented by a simple modus ponens argument. Thus, for example, his version of the Third Way, stripped of its complexity, can be reduced to the following syllogism:","PeriodicalId":36983,"journal":{"name":"Studia Gilsoniana","volume":"8 1","pages":"277-303"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69275882","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Aquinas’s Fourth Way of Demonstrating God’s Existence: From Virtual Quantum Gradations of Perfection (Inequality in Beauty) of Forms Existing within a Real Genus","authors":"Peter A. Redpath","doi":"10.26385/SG.080326","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26385/SG.080326","url":null,"abstract":"Of St. Thomas Aquinas’s Five Ways of demonstrating God’s existence in his famous Summa Theologiae, the one that often strikes many contemporary readers as most puzzling is his Fourth Way, which, in the first sentence, he says he takes from “gradations that are discovered in things.” By gradations discovered in things, in his second sentence, Thomas gives us an example of what his first sentence means: “[M]ore or less are said of different beings according to the way they resemble in different ways something that maximally exists, just as the hotter more resembles the maximally hot.” In his third sentence, taking the liberty to paraphrase St. Thomas, he claims that, similar to the case of discovering unequal intensities of","PeriodicalId":36983,"journal":{"name":"Studia Gilsoniana","volume":"81 1","pages":"681-716"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69275745","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Psychic Wholeness and Healing by Anna A. Terruwe and Conrad W. Baars","authors":"Brian Welter","doi":"10.26385/SG.080330","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26385/SG.080330","url":null,"abstract":"Dutch doctor and psychotherapist Anna Terruwe (1911–2004) spent her career counseling Catholic priests despite occasional opposition from within the Church. She reoriented Freudian psychoanalysis through Thomistic moral theology. Her writings have remained largely unknown aside from the translations and work of Dutch-American Conrad Baars (1919–1981). Baars attributed the saving of his own psychiatric practice in the US to his reading of and subsequent collaboration with Terruwe. Psychic Wholeness and Healing brings together some of their writings, starting with sections of Terruwe’s updated doctoral thesis. Each chapter of the book builds on previous ones. The early discussion provides ample and clear background, and includes unique definitions and depictions of psychological processes, especially of neurosis and repression. Given how easily this body of thought may be misunderstood by both Catholic moral theologians and by non-Catholic psychoanalysts, this work of clarification is a key feature to Psychic Wholeness and Healing. Later chapters address the nature of repression and psychological issues, their treatment, the human drives, and emotional","PeriodicalId":36983,"journal":{"name":"Studia Gilsoniana","volume":"8 1","pages":"761-766"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69275815","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}