RE: Thomism: Then & Now
November 1, 2021 at 8:46 pm
(This post was last modified: November 1, 2021 at 8:48 pm by Neo-Scholastic.)
(November 1, 2021 at 8:01 pm)emjay Wrote: ...part of consciousness is choice, or at least the illusion of it, but a perfect being, in the sense of all these absolutes and 'omnis', looks constrained to one course of action only, with no capacity for mistakes or learning or anything of the sort, so no different really than determinism. Basically it doesn't look like it defines anything like a conscious Being in the sense we'd think of it.
Indeed. God's sovereignty is absolute and His intellect incomprehensible to us. That is why I follow the negative way. I see God in the outlines of the negative space where His absence is most keenly felt. .
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