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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - St Thomas Aquinas
DESCRIPTION:THE ATTITUDE OF ST THOMAS \nAQUINAS BEFORE THE TRUTH \nBy Josef Pieper \n◊◊◊ \nIn considering the teaching of St Thomas\, we should not understand it \nmerely as the material substance of an explicitly formulated set of doctrines. \nMuch too rarely does one remember that the substance of the content [of his \nwritings] has its origin in a very special attitude of St Thomas\, human as well as \nintellectual\, not only in the sense that this attitude colors the work with its \nparticular emphasis\, but also in the sense that without this special human \nattitude\, what has been written might never have been written at all. \nShould we therefore not consider this attitude\, this temper of mind – \nthough Thomas himself never expressly formulated it – as part and parcel of the \nspirit of the ratio of the Universal Doctor of Christendom – the bold intrepidity \nwhich impelled and enabled the young mendicant friar at the University of Paris \nto “re-cognize” the truth of the Aristotelian worldview\, to re-integrate it as an \nessential part into the intellectual heritage of the Christian West\, undaunted by \nthe opposition of the defenders of traditional doctrine. And should we not see in \nthe personal “style” of this bold recognition of truth and reality likewise an \nelement of “timeliness\,” in the sense of an exemplary attitude?… \nIn times such as these it is imperative to call to mind the qualities which \nmake Thomas what he was: the all-inclusive\, fearless strength of his \naffirmation\, his generous acceptance of the whole of reality\, the trustful \nmagnanimity of his thought. And we find occasion\, also\, to remember: The \nformal and theoretical justification for this attitude is found precisely in \nThomas’s doctrine of the infinitely many-sided truth of things. Truth cannot be \nexhausted by any (human) knowledge; it remains therefore always open to new \nformulation. \nOn the other hand\, what we call here the “Thomist attitude” would have to \ninclude\, in order to remain true to its master\, the resolution not to relinquish a \nsingle particle of the heritage of truth; for it is the hallmark of the “modernity” of \nAlbert and Thomas that both refused to disrupt and abandon\, for the sake of new \nideas\, the realm of tradition. They relinquished neither the Bible nor Augustine \n(nor\, consequently\, Plato) for the sake of Aristotle. The new territory which awaits \nconquest today…is of virtually immeasurable scope… Thomas Aquinas might \nattain to a new timeliness\, both affirmative and corrective.
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