The Common Good is often misunderstood in our Post-Enlightenment world, but it’s the foundation of Aristotle’s Politics and essential for understanding how it completes his Ethics.
Aristotelian-Thomistic Psychology
Aristotle’s On the Soul along with his Categories helps us define the soul and its powers., and consequently different essences, like human nature. It lays the groundwork of a Christian psychology as Thomas Aquinas develops Aristotelian psychology in a Christian way. In both Aristotle and Aquinas, this psychology establishes the groundwork for the natural law and Aristotelian ethics.
The Soul & The City (Plato's Republic)
Beware the Real Danger of Entertainment
Erring Conscience & Religious Freedom
Virtue Ethics in Kierkegaard
The Need for Critical Thinking
Aquinas on Semantic Realism and Analogy of Being
Semantic anti-realism holds that statements cannot have truth value if their truth criteria are beyond the ability of humans to recognize them. John Haldane proposes moderate compatibility with Aquinas. I disagree, and the denial of verification-transcendence denies the possibility of the analogy of being.
