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Trinity, Eucharist, and Eternity in their mutual interrelationships and in their relationship with theory of signs and symbols, music and the visual arts, tragedy and comedy. Eternity and the three dimensions of time.
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The mixing of water and wine in the Mass is intended to represent the union of human and divine natures in the person of Christ. See John F. Whealon, The Vatican II Weekday Missal (Boston: Daughters of St. Paul, 1975), 848.
For Scotus, it is only in the beatific vision that the human intellect is able to overcome its ignorance of the real individuality of a thing (haeccitas). See the Oxford Commentary on the Sentences, Book III, Dist. III, in Philosophy in the Middle Ages, 2nd edition, eds. Arthur Hyman and J.J. Walsh (Indianapolis, IN: Hackett, 1973), 630–631.
See Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy, Section I in The Birth of Tragedy and Other Writings, eds. and trans. Raymond Geuss and Ronald Speirs (Cambridge: Cambridge, 1999), 14.
See Edward Lippman, A History of Western Musical Aesthetics (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1992), 3–9.
See Thomas Aquinas, Summa Contra Gentiles Book One: God, trans. Anton Charles Pegis (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1975), 72.
The regulative principles of reason which solve the antinomies tell us what to do (Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, trans. Norman Kemp Smith [New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003]. A509/B537).
See Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Idea (abridged), trans. David Berman (London: Everyman, 1995), 162–172.
See Immanuel Kant, Critique of Judgement, trans. James Creed Meredith and Nicholas Walker (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), 158 and 158n.
See Martin Heidegger, “The End of Philosophy and the Task of Thinking,” in Martin Heidegger: Basic Writings, ed. David Farrell Krell (San Francisco, CA: Harper, 1993), esp. 444–449.
See William Blake, “The Tyger,” in Blake: The Complete Poems, 3rd edition, ed. W.H. Stevenson (New York: Pearson/Longman, 2007), 221–222.
See Karl Popper, The World of Parmenides: Essays on the Presocratic Enlightenment (London: Routledge, 2012), 153 and 143n77.
See St. Augustine, Confessions I, 1 in St. Augustine’s Confessions: The Odyssey of Soul, trans. Robert J. O’Connell (New York: Fordham, 1989).
It is God who gives the act of existing to each created essence. See St. Thomas Aquinas, An Introduction to the Metaphysics of St. Thomas Aquinas, ed. and trans. James F. Anderson (Chicago, IL: Henry Regnery Company, 1953), 31–32.
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Austin, S. (2014). Aquinas. In: Tao and Trinity: Notes on Self-Reference and the Unity of Opposites in Philosophy. Palgrave Pivot, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137498144_5
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