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St. Thomas and the Preambles of Faith
On several occasions St. Thomas makes use of the phrase praeambula fidei in speaking of those truths about God which are accessible to unaided human reason. It is well known that Thomas thought that pagan philosophers, notably Aristotle, had succeeded in proving that God exists and had come to knowledge of many of His attributes. These are the matters the phrase “preambles of faith” is meant to cover, and that is why discussion of it can aspire to cast some light on the notion of Natural Theology, the culminating concern of metaphysics and thus of philosophy
The end of philosophy
In this article the author analyzes the different ways in which one can speak of an end of philosophy. The author shows the way in which the continuation of philosophy in our days is only achieved by overcoming sophistry and skepticism
The End of Philosophy
In this article the author analyzes the different ways in which one
can speak of an end of philosophy. He (she) shows the way in
which the key to the continuation of philosophy in our days
is only attainable through the overcoming of sophistry and
skepticism