
Episode 16 – Good, Evil, and Science | Fr. James Brent, O.P.
Aquinas 101 - Course 2: Introduction to Thomistic Philosophy
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The Nominalist Account of Things
In a world without natures the basis of evaluation must be elsewhere. For Occam that basis is in God. Things are good to the extent that they realize the will of God and bad to the extent they don't or we should say maybe conform to it. The nominalist account of things delivers a picture in which it is difficult to tell the difference between causality and violence, he says.
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