[Serious] Thomism: Then & Now

[emjay]

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All of it fascinating, as a study of a historical character.  We can assume he was a pretty smart cookie, and it's fun to see why he believed the things he did (not about gods, but about these arguments).  It was important to him, he was a student of classical thought and very much wanted the new god to fit the old mold.  It seemed meaningful, at the time, for that to be so.

Yeah, exactly... I think it's fascinating in it's own right if nothing else... and that the actual achievement is very impressive - however right or wrong it is. Just someone's life's work and how it came about.

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Yep.  You can imagine how it might be a problem for a christian intellectual to feel that there wasn't a solid intellectual footing for christianity.  That may have driven him to stretch.

Fair enough. I'm still interested though, and I'm enjoying this newfound interest in classical philosophy. Changing the subject I know but like for instance in my watching I'm up to Aristotle's virtue ethics and find that really appealing, then I looked up your moral realism, and also found that very appealing as an idea... so I'm hoping that in future I might find some sort of synthesis between those two ideas... I don't see why not, they don't seem incompatible. But anyway it's all this that triggered these newfound interests, so I'm happy I went down this line.