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HoP 300b - The Relevance of Medieval Philosophy Today

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

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Aquinas' Theodosis

Aquinas, a thirteenth century theist, says that everything god created is good. But he also has arguments for it, such as making something better by reducing its degree of being to make it more evil. In an example i like to give of this is take o really good beer, like we're actually in belgium, right? Ye. So reduce its flavor character. And so you maybe turn it into something more like american beer. And not having made American beer even worse, and you take away its flavor and so on. Then eventually you get to something that isn't beer any more. It's lost so much goodness that it gonethe example i like

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