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Is Saint Thomas an Eclecticist?
Baltazar writes via emil, thank you so much for all your work. I greatly admire your intellectual honesty and your work. Regarding this past episode on thomas aquinas, i'd like to mention three things. An eclectic is someone who draws from different sources without a system or a criterion,. ending up with contradictory opinions. Second, you don't need to adhere to all of saint thomas's tennis to consider yourself a tomist. For example, his cosmological views, tomism hinges around the real distinction of being and essence and the doctrine of participation. In terms of the principle of individuality, i'd be very interested to see if there are other passages where aquinas acknowledges