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To: cornelis
"Aristotle made it clear that there are undemonstrable first principles, a feature common to both philosophy and religion."

hmmm, did Aristotle say that? Did he say there were first principles? Got a quote? Did Aquinas borrow the concept from him then?
53 posted on 09/09/2003 9:52:57 AM PDT by WOSG
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To: WOSG
It's very possible Aquinas borrows this. Aquinas wrote a quite few extensive commentaries on Aristotle's works. I'm getting it directly from the Nicomachean Ethics book 6.
55 posted on 09/09/2003 10:16:19 AM PDT by cornelis
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