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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas
St. Thomas is tough going, but always profitable. He helps me to understand how disorganized my own thought is...

Indeed.

I started reading him in college. Our library had a good translation of the Summa.

18 posted on 04/27/2012 10:49:48 AM PDT by backwoods-engineer (I will vote against ANY presidential candidate who had non-citizen parents.)
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To: backwoods-engineer

Mortimer Adler, the educator and philosopher, was enthralled by St. Thomas, and because of him became a Thomist, and toward the end of his life, a Catholic. No clearer writer and teacher than Adler. I once got by mistake a film on Epicetus presented by Adler. For the heck of it I showed it to my calculus class in place of the film I had intended to show. They were enthralled! He was a master at making the complex seem simple. Even Bertrand Russell, the atheist philosopher, said that Thomas was a master logician: Accept his premises and one could not avoid his conclusions.


24 posted on 04/27/2012 11:10:56 PM PDT by RobbyS (Christus rex.)
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