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A history-of-ideas approach to the past presumes that beneath the multifarious events taking place in any age, influencing dominant personalities and shaping popular opinion, there are overarching ideas or ideologies that give meaning and
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“Must we choose Thomas or Newman in this unhealthy epoch, struggling as it is between integralism and modernism [...] No, the choice of this hour as we stand at the central point of the spiritual crisis of our time is not Thomas or Newman, but, true to the spirit of Catholic polarity, Thomas and Newman.”
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“A capacity as such is directed to an act. Wherefore we seek to know the nature of a capacity from the act to which it is directed, and consequently the nature of a capacity is diversified as the nature of the act is diversified.”
― Summa Theologiae
― Summa Theologiae
“Political fundraisers are part and parcel of doing business. You want to thank those who have supported you, you want to support them, but there’s no quid pro quo. Sometimes you organize fundraisers because you want to show your gratitude, you want to go the extra mile.”
― The Business of America is Lobbying: How Corporations Became Politicized and Politics Became More Corporate
― The Business of America is Lobbying: How Corporations Became Politicized and Politics Became More Corporate
“God is not simply other than our knowledge of Him. It is through God and God alone that we know God. Descartes elaborates this in this way: We know God because he left a mark of Himself in us; this mark is nothing other than our self-consciousness. Knowing God through this mark of His, we know God in every act of reason.”
― Self-Consciousness and Objectivity: An Introduction to Absolute Idealism
― Self-Consciousness and Objectivity: An Introduction to Absolute Idealism
“Not only powers of intentional action, the power of intentional action is self-predicated. She who acts intentionally knows herself to have this power. The self-predication I am an intentional agent underlies and is contained in any dynamic self-predication I am doing A. Indeed, this self- predication is none other than the consciousness expressed by the word I in I am doing A. Once one recognizes this, it becomes much easier to read German Idealism.”
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