Thomas Aquinas died from head trauma, study suggests https://www.medievalists.net/2025/01/thomas-aquinas-died-from-head-trauma-study-suggests/ #Aquinas
#Aquinas: "The state-community should be such that everything sufficient for the needs of human life is found in it. #PoliticalJustice exists among the #free and #equal; in people who do not have freedom and justice, there is not found political justice." https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/03/13/aquinas-on-justice-the-cosmos-the-common-good-the-rich/
Photo: #JusticeThurgoodMarshall statue on MD State House grounds
#Aquinas: "Avarice gives rise to insensibility to compassion, b/c one’s heart is not softened by compassion to assist the needy w/ one’s riches. It gives rise to restlessness by hindering one w/ excessive anxiety & care for ‘an avaricious man shall not be satisfied w/ money’"(Ec 5:9). https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/03/04/aquinas-on-oligarchy-democracy-american-politics-today/
In 40 days U.S. turned from supporting Ukraine's defending their democracy vs. Putin's invading force, toward siding w/ despots. #Aquinas: tyrants prefer company of bad people over good people. Zelenskyy shows true leadership & courage, rallying Ukraine to resist a tyrannical invader. https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/03/03/anti-christ-strikes-again-putin-trump-vance-vs-zelenskyy/
#Aquinas advises: look beyond #money to the #spiritual for the limitless & infinite. 3 paths: Increase #Love, seek #knowledge, & practice #creativity. Living so, you won't become coldhearted but will make good #friends, build #community, share #joy, find #meaning, & excite others. https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/03/01/aquinass-medicine-for-greed-listen-up-yall/
#Aquinas observes that "#tyrants are more afraid of good people than of evil people." The #Antichrist prefers bad people to good people.
https://www.matthewfox.org/donation-store/trump-the-maga-movement-as-anti-christ-a-handbook-for-the-2024-election
#47ParrotsPutinsUkraineLies
#47WouldLoveDictatorZelenskyy
#Aquinas: We are to “brave great dangers for great things, e.g. the common welfare, #justice, divine worship." Jeremiah: “The Lord is with me like a brave #warrior.” #RabbiHeschel talks about the "urgency of justice” & how “to do justice is what God demands of every person." https://bit.ly/4k240xm
You’re about to be triggered by some #Augustine and #Aquinas references, mis hermanos en jesucristo.
https://sfba.social/@dangrsmind/113975988306183442
Reassessing Aquinas’s Second Way: The Relevance of Efficient Causality in Philosophy and Contemporary Science https://buff.ly/4hnnwma #Christianity #philosophy #theology #causality #science #Aquinas
#Aquinas: A correct conscience binds absolutely & perfectly vs. the command of a superior. When there is #abuseofpower, not merely is one not bound to #obey, one is also bound not to obey, following the martyrs, who suffered death rather than carry out the wicked decrees of tyrants. https://bit.ly/4hdbpIg
Thomas Aquinas died from head trauma, study suggests https://www.medievalists.net/2025/01/thomas-aquinas-died-from-head-trauma-study-suggests/ #Aquinas #medieval #medical
How Thomas Aquinas Influenced Economic Theory and Practice https://www.medievalists.net/2022/12/thomas-aquinas-economic/ #Aquinas #History #Economics
If you're on Tiktok I'm doing a series on the Correspondence Theory of #Truth in #philosophy https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGdrQPxaD/
Covered so far: #Aristotle #Aquinas #Wittgenstein #Daston #Heraclitus
New Medieval Books: A Brief Life of Thomas Aquinas: The Theologian in His Context, by Jean-Pierre Torrell https://www.medievalists.net/2024/12/new-medieval-books-a-brief-life-of-thomas-aquinas/ #Aquinas #Books #NewBooks
Relics of St. Thomas Aquinas come to Washington D.C. https://www.medievalists.net/2024/11/relics-thomas-aquinas-washington/ #Aquinas #WashingtonDC
#Aquinas: "The proper objects of the 
are #Truth & #Justice." Truth & justice ride together. #Lies & #injustice travel as companions. Lies pave the way to injustice. https://bit.ly/3Tz8mQW
Here's a new video identifying Fake Quotes that people circulate around the internet, this one focused on those falsely attributed to Thomas Aquinas. 10 fake quotes + 1 bonus fake poem as well!
https://youtu.be/iBa5wXblLno
#FakeQuotes #Thomas #Aquinas #Philosophy #Theology #Mistakes
Thomas #Aquinas, you should recall for the next time this comes up with some anti-abortion kook, said abortion is not murder in his graduate thesis on the Sentences of Peter Lombard. He only frowns on it as another form of birth control, something the Catholic church still opposes and most Catholics have used anyway for the price of a few Hail Marys.
![From "Aquinas on the Beginning and End of Human Life", p.182:
This sin [i.e. the act that can cause an abortion] however much it is grave and is to be included among the maleficious acts and is against nature, since even the beasts look forward to bringing forth their offspring, still is less than a homicide, since conceiving could still be impeded in another way. Nor should such an act be judged irregular unless it causes the abortion of an unborn child that is already formed.](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/255/961/981/370/590/original/ca441f93c08bd396.png "From \"Aquinas on the Beginning and End of Human Life\", p.182:
This sin [i.e. the act that can cause an abortion] however much it is grave and is to be included among the maleficious acts and is against nature, since even the beasts look forward to bringing forth their offspring, still is less than a homicide, since conceiving could still be impeded in another way. Nor should such an act be judged irregular unless it causes the abortion of an unborn child that is already formed.")
Melania Trump agrees with Thomas #Aquinas that #abortion is not #murder, though she wonders why anyone would care.
https://www.newsweek.com/jd-vance-melania-trump-abortion-1964177
Coming up at Noon Central Time today, I'll be premiering another of my Self-Directed Study Advice videos, this time on Thomas Aquinas' works and thought. I'll be answering questions participants leave in the live chat!
https://youtu.be/6toQ010_hVk
#Video #Advice #Thomas #Aquinas #Philosophy #Theology #Study #Independent #ContinuingEducation
