“Although the writings of the classical Greeks and their Roman and Arabic successors remain the foundation of Western philosophy and science of music, as well…
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“He who listens to me [i.e., Wisdom] will dwell secure and will be at ease, without dread of evil.” (Proverbs 1:33, RSVCE) The good life…
“Wisdom cries aloud in the street; in the markets she raises her voice; on the top of the walls she cries out at the entrance…
“When I see the heavens, the work of your hands, the moon and the stars which you arranged, what is man that you should keep…
We often try to understand eternity beyind the reach of our minds. David didn’t do so, but kept things simple. To be eternal is to…
Porphyry’s Introduction offers a careful explanation of how the five predicables—Genus, Difference, Species, Property, and Accident—relate to one another. These comparisons help us understand how each term…
With respect to enthymemes, however, there is a great difference, of which nearly all the professors of rhetoric are particularly ignorant, and which is conversant…
Difference, however, is predicated in common, peculiarly, and most peculiarly. For one thing is said to differ from another in common, in consequence of differing…
Three young men scoffed at an old blind man who taught that a snowy mountain was made long ago, out of nothing, by a supernatural…