Theos-Talk Archives (August 2005 Message tt00280)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Drpsionic@a... wrote:

> In a message dated 8/25/05 11:39:34 AM Central Daylight Time, 
> bartl@s... writes:
> 
> > And what does that have to do with whether or not a woman has a 
soul? A 
> > lesson in logic: Just because someone says one objectional 
thing does 
> > not mean that he is saying ALL objectional things.
> > 
> 
> In the case of Aquinas, everything he said was either 
objectionable or 
> nonsense. Logical nonsense, but nonsense nonetheless.
> 
> But in Aquinas defense, he had some sort of mystical experience 
before he 
> died and repudiated everything he wrote, calling it "trash."


Actually, he is supposed to have said that everything he wrote (for 
the several volumes his *Summa Teologica* alone - a substantiation 
of the Christian teachings in the light of Aristotelian logic - you 
would need a wheelbarrow to carry them home!) was like straw 
compared with what he had seen.


pedro