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Aristotle and Aquinas
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In "A Guide to the Perplexed" Schumacher quotes Aquinas:"The slenderest knowledge that may be obtained of the highest things is mire desirable than the most certain knowledge obtained of lesser…Continue
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"Dear Karl, Thanks for the quotation, which I will follow up in context later. I hadn't thought of the ethical dimension in my inquiry - my focus was more on epistemology. I've tended to keep clear of ethics, in the course of a long…"
"Nichomachean Ethics X.7
There may be something similar in Metaphysics, but I don't recall that text as well.
"But we must not follow those who advise us, being men, to think of human things, and, being mortal, of mortal things, but must,…"
Aristotle and Aquinas
In "A Guide to the Perplexed" Schumacher quotes Aquinas:"The slenderest knowledge that may be obtained of the highest things is mire desirable than the most certain knowledge obtained of lesser things"and then says that this is more or less paraphrasing Aristotle.I would reckon it's somewhere in the Metaphysics, but can anyone who knows the text better than me tell me exactly where it's from?See More
"Hi David
Thanks for connecting. I was as blessed as you with all that happened on Sunday.
See you next Sunday morning."
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- At 7:15am on January 5, 2010,
Adrian Tamblyn-Watts said…
- Hi David
Thanks for connecting. I was as blessed as you with all that happened on Sunday.
See you next Sunday morning.
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