Mr. David Clayton, the artist in residence at Thomas More College of Liberal Arts, is hosting a weekly half-hour program, The Way of Beauty, on Boston’s Catholic TV. The shows are available for viewing on-line at www.catholictv.com. (The only disappointment is that the viewing box is compressed vertically, throwing off some of the proportions.) Mr. [...]
by Brother Francis Maluf, M.I.C.M. Put in the language of philosophy, this difference between philosophy and the sciences can be expressed in the following terms: philosophy seeks the ultimate explanation, while science is satisfied with the proximate causes of things. Now as far as the mind is concerned, proximate explanation is really no explanation at [...]
by Brother Francis Maluf, M.I.C.M. All these sciences, in so far as they are sciences, that is, in so far as they possess any explanatory value, presuppose the superior philosophic sciences of logic, cosmology, rational psychology and ethics. And these philosophic sciences, in turn, presuppose ontology or general metaphysics. Ontology is the absolute summit of [...]
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