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Tag Archives: Herbert McCabe
Philia
I do feel – and feel is the right word – that Herbert McCabe’s ‘On Aquinas’ deserves a wider audience. So many important themes, from so many thinkers, rendered limpid in a thesis all of his own. Of course there’s … Continue reading
Posted in Aristotle, Language, Life, Philosophy, Politics
Tagged Aquinas, Aristotle, Care, Friendship, Herbert McCabe, Justice, On Aquinas, Philia, Society
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Crystallisation
At the core of Aristotle’s account of ethics and virtue is ‘Prohairesis’ – the central moral character. I increasingly think of it like a copper sulphate crystal growing on a piece of thread. When you do the classic school experiment, … Continue reading
Posted in Aristotle, Ethics, Life, Philosophy, Psychology, Work
Tagged Aquinas, Aristotle, Copper Sulphate, Crystals, Deliberation, Herbert McCabe, Imperfections, Practical Wisdom, Prohairesis, Prudentia, Taking Time, Virtue, Wisdom
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Language
Re-reading a chapter of Herbert McCabe’s ‘On Aquinas’ last night, the outline of a new understanding emerged from the complex conceptual haze of the ‘philosophy of language’. Language is the means through which we transcend individual experience and share our … Continue reading
Posted in Aristotle, Language, Life, Philosophy, Psychology
Tagged Aquinas, Aristotle, Herbert McCabe, Montaigne, Private Language Argument, We are what we write, Wittgenstein
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Incandescence
This week, I advanced my new theory – to a gently sceptical friend – that the brain works (at least partly) like the electronic ink screen of an Amazon Kindle. Blending in the philosophy of St Thomas Aquinas, my sweeping … Continue reading
Posted in Achilles, Aristotle, Ethics, Philosophy, Psychology
Tagged 'anima', 'ira', Anger, Aquinas, Aristotle, Bayesian Brain, E-ink, Herbert McCabe, Instinct, Kindle, Passions, Philosophy, Reason, The Soul, Theology, Virtue, We are what we repeatedly do
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Elemental
The late Herbert McCabe wrote with almost scientific beauty on Aristotle and Aquinas. There is a tightness and precision which bespeaks a lifetime’s reflection and contemplation. The international physics community has just acknowledged two new superheavy elements – 114 and … Continue reading
Posted in Aristotle, Ethics, Life
Tagged 114, Aristotle, Football, Friends, Herbert McCabe, On Aquinas, Periodic Table, Practice, Ununquadium, Virtue
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Poppies
On holiday in France, I started reading Herbert McCabe on St Thomas Aquinas. I’d heard Sir Anthony Kenny in a ‘Philosophy Bites’ podcast describing Aquinas as deserving as much attention from we moderns as Aquinas himself paid to Aristotle in … Continue reading
Posted in Aristotle, Language, Life
Tagged Aquinas, Aristotle, Atomism, Britannica's Great Books, Charante-Maritime, France, Herbert McCabe, Holism, Language, Marennes, Medieval, Montaigne, Philosophy Bites, Poppies, Redness, Sir Anthony Kenny
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