Subject Area
Philosophy
Description
What is more essential to the philosophical act, what we study or how we study? Taking its cue from a line by Thomas Aquinas on the corruptibility of the natural law, this essay seeks to make some sense of the ways in which our way of knowing and, consequently, of being, is affected by the sins of our philosophical forefathers. The essay advises against putting faith in any particular school of thought, be it the pensee d'jour or philosophia perennis, since our ability to comprehend and converse in their varying tenets is compromised by the very state of the post-modern mind. Instead, the essay argues, reason and knowledge would do well to attend to the power of faith to illuminate what is darkened and to heal what is corrupted.
Publisher
Providence College
Date
Spring 2015
Type
Article
Format
Text
Language
English
