{"title":"Thirdness along the Intuitional Path: Reflections from Maritain and Peirce","authors":"Donna E. West","doi":"10.26385/SG.080218","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26385/SG.080218","url":null,"abstract":"This inquiry exposits Maritain’s and Peirce’s account of the preconditions for emergence of event relations. This spotlights Maritain’s model of how to prepare for the receipt of objective intellection, as well as Peirce’s treatment of abductive inferencing. It further identifies the foundational representations (signs) which compel the intuitional/inferencing process. The ultimate illustration of inferencing for Peirce is","PeriodicalId":36983,"journal":{"name":"Studia Gilsoniana","volume":"8 1","pages":"431-475"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69276038","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":"Thomistic Personalism as the Key to Understanding Human Altruism","authors":"Innocent C. Ezewoko","doi":"10.26385/SG.080321","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26385/SG.080321","url":null,"abstract":"Surrounded as we are by stories of incredible human cruelty, we are also amazed by the incredible extent to which human beings make sacrifices to show kindness to others. This is fascinating because it contradicts prima facie the standard picture of competition for survival painted by the evolutionary theory. This has raised several questions and led to divergent scientific claims. The most pressing question has to do with the ultimate explanation of this behavior among human beings: why is the human being altruistic? The considerable study in psychology and evolutionary biology, sociology, and anthropology only beg the question. The best scientific analyses offer descriptive accounts of observed human altruistic behavior but are helpless in trying to plumb into the sources of motivation for such behavior. There is a diversity of interesting questions with respect to altruism, some of which address the possibility of altruism itself. It is fairly obvious that the core question of altruism belongs less to the sphere of the natural sciences than to philosophy. How do we get to an adequate philosophical answer to this question? In this paper, I search for the answers within the philosophical framework of Thomistic personalism. Any account of human altruistic motivation must assume","PeriodicalId":36983,"journal":{"name":"Studia Gilsoniana","volume":"8 1","pages":"547-567"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69276158","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":"St. Thomas Aquinas and Fr. Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange on Wonder and the Division of the Sciences","authors":"Anthony Daum","doi":"10.26385/SG.080212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26385/SG.080212","url":null,"abstract":"This essay is a comparison between St. Thomas Aquinas’s and Fr. Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange’s conceptions of philosophical wonder and the division of the sciences. While these two great philosophertheologians are separated by almost 700 years, they have largely compatible views on these topics. This is due, no doubt, to the fact that Garrigou-Lagrange (1877–1964), being a Dominican himself, is deeply indebted to Aquinas, but he does also make some significant developments of his own, which is to be expected. Thomas Aquinas needs no introduction, but, these days, Garrigou-Lagrange does. He is simply one of the greatest philosophertheologians within the Thomistic tradition of the last century and whose most famous student was Pope St. John Paul II. Garrigou-Lagrange has, up until recently, been largely forgotten for two intertwined reasons. First, he was (in)famously labeled as “the Sacred Monster of Thomism” (which forces most people to make an immediate judgment based on their personal views of Thomism as practiced in the early 20 century).","PeriodicalId":36983,"journal":{"name":"Studia Gilsoniana","volume":"8 1","pages":"249-276"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69275839","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":"El oscurecimiento del ser y su sustitución por la existencia","authors":"Claudio Marenghi","doi":"10.26385/SG.080104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26385/SG.080104","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36983,"journal":{"name":"Studia Gilsoniana","volume":"8 1","pages":"113-146"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69276008","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":"Fashioning Episodes Through Virtual Habit: The Efficacy of Pre-Lived Experience","authors":"Donna E. West","doi":"10.26385/SG.070104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26385/SG.070104","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36983,"journal":{"name":"Studia Gilsoniana","volume":"1 1","pages":"81-99"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48801396","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":"Silence and the Audibility of the Word: Contemplative Listening as a Fundamental Act of the New Evangelization. Part 2: Jesus Christ, the Eternal Listener","authors":"J. Siegmund","doi":"10.26385/SG.070106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26385/SG.070106","url":null,"abstract":"While part one of my arguing for contemplative listening as a fundamental act of the new evangelization shows that man’s ontological listening is an obedient readiness to hear the Word, the present part claims that this readiness is modeled upon the eternal Listener, Jesus Christ. The context of my argument concerns what it means to say that Christ reveals the human person to himself as a listener. Of primary importance is that one’s listening is based on the model of Christ’s own personhood. The first point I need to secure, then, is how the Son is a Listener. Explaining that involves showing first that the Son’s possession of divinity as received from the Father does not imply subordina-","PeriodicalId":36983,"journal":{"name":"Studia Gilsoniana","volume":"1 1","pages":"119-137"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43392929","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":"Why Augustinian Apologetics and Logical Dialectic Are Not Enough to Defend the Reasonableness of the Christian Faith in an Increasingly-Fragmented World","authors":"Peter A. Redpath","doi":"10.26385/SG.070103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26385/SG.070103","url":null,"abstract":"Evident to many Christians today is that contemporary Christian culture exists within a condition of severe identity crisis. Because we cannot preserve the identity of any being, including that of ourselves, without first admitting that identities other than ourselves exist independently of us, the rational starting point for anyone seeking to solve this problem must consist in admitting three evident truths: (a) beings other than ourselves (real natures) exist; (b) like us, the identity of such beings consists in being organizational wholes (wholes made up of parts); and (c) organizational unity exists in and through the harmonious relationship of the parts of an organizational whole to each other and to some chief aim, or act, the organization seeks to generate or cause (like building a house, extinguishing a fire, fighting crime or disease, or fostering psychological perfection). To preserve the identity of Christian culture, we must first recognize three things: (a) what is a Christian identity; (b) what is a cultural identity; and (c) how these two identities can be essentially merged to","PeriodicalId":36983,"journal":{"name":"Studia Gilsoniana","volume":"1 1","pages":"69-80"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48203323","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":"Peirce, Sebeok, and the Semiotic Reformation on Contemporary Communications","authors":"Maria Asuncion L. Magsino","doi":"10.26385/SG.070101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26385/SG.070101","url":null,"abstract":"The sale sign says in bold twenty-inch font: 50% off. That sends off the message “there must be good buys in there.” You enter the store but you hardly find items on 50% mark-off. You complain and the sales attendant draws your attention to a four-centimeter text that reads “on selected items.” Why do we demand signs to be accurate? Rectitude in the representation and interpretation of signs makes sense only in view of communication. Communication entails the expression of one’s thoughts, feelings, desires, etc., with the intent of engaging another in an exchange of views or a dialogue. For this to take place, the creation of a modeling system becomes imperative. Communication in very simple terms entails an exchange of any kind of messages whatsoever. A message can consist of a sign or a string of signs transmitted from a sign producer, or sender, to a sign receiver or destination. This article argues that in whatever manner the sign is used to signify, the ultimate indicator of a successful transmission of messages in any system would be the conformity to a norm or an ideal. In fine, we unwittingly uphold the realist’s adage adaequatio","PeriodicalId":36983,"journal":{"name":"Studia Gilsoniana","volume":"1 1","pages":"11-31"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47767776","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":"La originalidad de la ontología tomista y su giro en torno al ser","authors":"Claudio Marenghi","doi":"10.26385/SG.070102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26385/SG.070102","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36983,"journal":{"name":"Studia Gilsoniana","volume":"1 1","pages":"33-67"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47193831","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}