Category: metaphysics

  • Why is there Something?

    Why is there Something?

    THE PROJECT was a conversation/presentation for our local chapter of the Dominican lay fraternity on Chapter 12 of The One and the Many: A Contemporary Thomistic Metaphysics by Fr W. Norris Clarke, SJ. The chapter was on Efficient Cause, which is one of the four causes of Aristotelian and Thomistic philosophy. Here follow the notes…

  • Can you do that?

    THIS YEAR for our chapter of the Lay Fraternity of St Dominic, we are reading The One and the Many: a Contemporary Thomist Metaphysics by W. Norris Clarke S.J. (insert OP/SJ jokes here). As is often the case with Amazon it took too long for such a non-popular book to arrive so we had a…