Wednesday, January 21, 2015

One can only hope …

… Is Scholasticism Making a Comeback? - Crisis Magazine. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Feser is aware of many good philosophers who, like himself, are working their way through the modern mind. They discover, often surprising themselves, that their pursuit leads them to Aristotle, Aquinas, and the scholastic tradition. This tradition, newly reflected on, turns out, after having been downgraded by Catholic educators for decades, to be the newest thing on the block. David Warren recently mentioned the interest in St. Thomas that is found among, of all people, contemporary Chinese philosophers. Feser’s book on metaphysics is a dialogue with many analytic philosophers. Not a few of them, as he shows, begin to see points of contact with Aristotle and Aquinas because of the limits of their own system.
I graduated from college with more credits in philosophy than in English literature, which was my major. Most of that philosophy was Scholastic philosophy. It turned out to be an immense asset to my so-called career.

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