I entered the Jesuit order in 1933. I was then 20. Later my superior asked me: "Would you like t o become a professor?" "In no way!" My wish was t o be a missionary to take care of the poor. "Good. You'll do it, all the same." By 1941, when Italy entered the Second World War, I had been assigned t o work towards a Ph.D. in Thomistic philosophy at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. My ...

ion 39; Abraham D. Stone: Simplicius and Avicenna on the essential corporeity of material substance 73; David C. Reisman: Avicenna at the ARCE 131-182. ———. 2003. Avicenna's Metaphysics in Context. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 75. ———. 2003. "Towards a history of Avicenna's distinction between immanent and transcendent causes." In Before and After Avicenna. Proceedings of the First Confere...

Question 77 of the Summa Theologiae (IIa-IIae) contains the crux of the analysis Thomas Aquinas devotes to the just price 1. The expression itself (justum pretium) however appears only rarely in these passages 2, and a cursory reading might lead one to conclude only too readily that the object of these few pages is to be found elsewhere. In some respects, such a spontaneous reading would be a f...

non-earthly matters are presumed invalid. In I Frederick Copleston, S.J., A History of Philosophy at pt. 4, 24-25 (1962), Father Copleston observes-with typical succinct brilliance-regarding the above passage from Aristotle: Thus if a patient who suffers from delirium tremens "sees" pink rats, the senses as such do not err; error arises when the patient judges that the pink rats are "out there,...