Tradition
Analytical Thomism
Overview
Analytical Thomism is a philosophical movement which promotes the interchange of ideas between the thought of Thomas Aquinas (including the philosophy carried on in relation to his thinking, called 'Thomism'), and modern analytic philosophy. It is a branch of analytic scholasticism that draws on other scholastic sources, especially John Duns Scotus.
Scottish philosopher John Haldane coined the term in the early 1990s, and has since been one of the movement's leading proponents. According to Haldane, "analytical Thomism involves the bringing into mutual relationship of the styles and preoccupations of recent English-speaking philosophy and the ideas and concerns shared by St. Thomas and his followers".
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Thus Plato's opinion, as narrated by Gregory of Nyssa (De Provid. viii, 3), is exploded. He taught a threefold providence. First, one which belongs to the supreme Deity, Who first and foremost has provision over spiritual things, and thus over the whole world as regards genus, species, and universal causes. The second providence, which is over the individuals of all that can be generated and corrupted, he attributed…
Aquinas Thomas, Summa Theologica, Part I
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Thus, the same understanding, and by the same operations, whereby in conceptions, by means of analytical unity, it produced the logical form of a judgement, introduces, by means of the synthetical unity of the manifold in intuition, a transcendental content into its representations, on which account they are called pure conceptions of the understanding, and they apply à priori to objects, a result not within the…
Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Pure Reason
States what Analytical Thomism is.
Since the Renaissance, moral philosophy has repeatedly reverted to the Greek ideal of natural excellence realized in social life, under the fostering care of intelligence in action. The return, however, has taken place under the influence of democratic polity, commercial expansion, and scientific reorganization. It has been a liberation more than a reversion.
John Dewey, The Influence of Darwin on Philosophy, and other essays in contemporary thought
Close in meaning to Analytical Thomism; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed Analytical Thomism
Related ideas
- Józef Maria Bocheński
- Étienne Gilson
- Philippa Foot
- Analytic philosophy
- Jurisprudence
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Metaethics
- Mortimer J. Adler
- Mathematical logic
- John Finnis
- Thomas Aquinas
- Natural law
- University of Cambridge
- Virtue ethics
- Anthony Kenny
- Peter Geach
- Aristotelianism
- University of Oxford
- Encyclical
- Aeterni Patris
- Pope Leo XIII
- Jacques Maritain
- G. E. M. Anscombe
- Alasdair MacIntyre
Place in the tradition
Part of Analytic philosophy.