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Episode 20 – The Primary Being | Prof. Steven Long

Aquinas 101 - Course 2: Introduction to Thomistic Philosophy

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St. Thomas's Transcendental Way of Thought

St. Thomas' transcendental way of thought seeks both the inner principle and the extrinsic cause by which a thing is being end quote. God does indeed transcend being in general or ends kumune, but nonetheless we do affirm that God is the full perfection of being and this affirmation must be intelligible. Analogy of proper proportionality does not imply reciprocal real proportion. The resolution to God would be unintelligible.

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