RE: Thomism: Then & Now
October 27, 2021 at 8:25 pm
(This post was last modified: October 27, 2021 at 8:27 pm by emjay.)
Just a little update on where I'm up to in all of this, in case anyone's interested... I'm in full Plato mode at the moment; at first I was just watching a playlist of university lectures on YouTube, but now I'm also trying to read all the texts before I watch the videos, as the teacher would ask of his students, so over the last week or two I've read Meno, Republic 1 and 2, Apology, Crito, and today Phaedo.
I've got to say I'm absolutely enthralled by all of this, and the latter of those in particular seems the most relevant to the present subject matter... it being the first time, at least out of the texts I've read so far, where it really goes into the ideas behind Plato's Forms, etc, as well as a lot of other ideas that seem familiar from the later Aristotlian and Thomist thinking.
So yeah, if you're looking for some background on all of this vulcan (or anyone), I'd highly recommend reading Phaedo at least, as that seems possibly to be where all these ideas stem from. It's also a great read anyway in it's own right... it's very moving and kind of poetic, covering Socrates' last hours, and what was on his mind at the time... mainly metaphysics, before he was put to death.
I've got to say I'm absolutely enthralled by all of this, and the latter of those in particular seems the most relevant to the present subject matter... it being the first time, at least out of the texts I've read so far, where it really goes into the ideas behind Plato's Forms, etc, as well as a lot of other ideas that seem familiar from the later Aristotlian and Thomist thinking.
So yeah, if you're looking for some background on all of this vulcan (or anyone), I'd highly recommend reading Phaedo at least, as that seems possibly to be where all these ideas stem from. It's also a great read anyway in it's own right... it's very moving and kind of poetic, covering Socrates' last hours, and what was on his mind at the time... mainly metaphysics, before he was put to death.
