DIVINE NECESSITY AND CREATED CONTINGENCE IN AQUINAS

Psychology and mind in Aquinas.

This article stresses the main lines of Thomas Aquinas's philosophy on the nature of the body-soul union. Following Aristotle, Aquinas sees the soul as a 'principle of life' which is intimately bound to a body. Together they form a non-contingent composition. In addition, the distinctive feature of the human soul is rationality, which implies that a human needs a mind to be what it is. However,...

Divine Eros and Divine Providence in Proclus’ Educational System

Aquinas Hobor Research Statement

I am interested in improving software reliability through specification and verification techniques. Recently I have focused on improving the reliability of concurrent programs. Multi-core processors are leading to an increasing number of programs that utilize concurrency. Unfortunately, concurrency bugs tend to be among the most difficult to discover through testing. Therefore to improve the r...

Virtues in the Theology of Thomas Aquinas

RECENT YEARS have seen the publication of studies advocating an orientation for Christian ethics based upon virtue. Stanley Hauerwas, Alasdair Maclntyre, Paul J. Wadell, Jean Porter, Daniel Mark Nelson, and others are associated with this approach. To many who had known and experienced Roman Catholic moral theology in the decades before Vatican II, this invitation to a restoration of virtue eth...

Aquinas and the Ethics of Virtue

Note: This is a preprint of my introduction to the forthcoming translation by Margaret Atkins of Thomas Aquinas's Disputed Questions on the Virtues (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy). The basic procedure was simple. The topic would be announced in advance so that everyone could prepare an arsenal of clever arguments. When the faculty and students had gathered, the professor would of...