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I suggest you go into your attack and dig out some of the philosophy textbooks they used in Catholic colleges in the 1950s. It is impossible to use these book to approach and challenge the worldview of modern philosophers. To be sure, the fault was also in the modern philosopher who refused to acknowledge how much commom ground was provided by Aristotle.But few textbooks acknwledge how hard it is for the modern student sufficiently to ground himself in Aristotle's logic and metaphysics and to understand that St. Thomas had a very different way of looking at things. It wasn't until read read Gilson that I understood something of the intellectual war in which St. Thomas was engaged and
how limited a use we can make of the weapons he forged.