Monday, March 07, 2016

Something to think on …

Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.
— Thomas Aquinas, who died on this date in 1274

6 comments:

  1. I have read some middling chunks of Aquinas, without encountering anything that much sounds like that. Is there a source?

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  2. Me, too. And all that I can say about that is that it is very widely attributed to him. I also do not think it is out of character

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  3. A Google search resulted in this:

    Full text of "St Thomas Aquinas Philosophical Texts"
    https://archive.org/stream/stthomasaquinasp029194mbp/stthomasaquinasp029194mbp_djvu.txt
    Internet Archive
    4, 238 Summa Theohgica, la, Ixxix, 9 66. Because philosophy arises from awe a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic 1 de Trinitate, ...

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  4. The format of the text linked here shows the passage and source more clearly:

    https://archive.org/stream/stthomasaquinasp029194mbp#page/n49/mode/2up/search/awe"

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  5. Yes, thank you. That leads to the full quotation at http://www.logicmuseum.com/wiki/Authors/Thomas_Aquinas/metaphysics/liber1#Lecture_3 .

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