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Episode 21 – Analogical Naming of God in Aquinas | Fr. Thomas Joseph White, O.P.

Aquinas 101 - Course 2: Introduction to Thomistic Philosophy

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Can We Give a Name to God?

In the first article, aristotle asks whether a name can be given to god. He's just saying, your language is realistic in that when it denotes reality, you can think conceptually about reality. And i'm noting conceptually that you really are human beings. Common sense realism follows, therefore, that we can give a name to anything in so far as we can understand it. In this life we cannot see the essence of god, but we can know god from creatures as to their cause. That's the way of pre eminence and negation. If you were just opened the suma cold, you wouldn't notice that he just referred there to the via causalicates, the

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