Thomist Realism and The Critique of Knowledge
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Michael's College at the University of Toronto. Gilson served as professor and director of studies at the institute.
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Like his fellow countryman Jacques Maritain, Etienne Gilson was a neo-Thomist for whom Christian revelation is an indispensable auxiliary to reason, and on faith he accepted Christian doctrine as advocated by the Roman Catholic church. At the same time, like St.
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Thomas Aquinas, he accorded reason a wide compass of operation, maintaining that it could demonstrate the existence of God and the necessity of revelation, with which he considered it compatible. Why anything exists is a question that science cannot answer and may even deem senseless.
Gilson found the answer to be that "each and every particular existing thing depends for its existence on a pure Act of existence. Pure being, as Kant rightly understands it, is not an object of sensual experience.
The apprehension of being is inextricably bound up with perception, and the existence of objects is known without mediation between the knowing subject and the object apprehended by the senses. Gilson makes reference to the philosophy of George Berkeley only a few times in a book that is clearly not concerned with the Berkelian system per se, or with situating it in any precise relation to critical realism.
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The following are those passages wherein anything of substance pertaining to Berkeley can be found:. If they [the Cartesians] could not prove that the external world exists, they believed it through faith in revelation.
Like his fellow countryman Jacques Maritain, Etienne Gilson was a neo-Thomist for whom Christian revelation is an indispensable auxiliary to reason, and on faith he accepted Christian doctrine as advocated by the Roman Catholic church. Edwin Conrad rated it really liked it Jul 28, As for Berkeley, it is evident that our sensations come to us through our sense organs and that they are not produced in us immediately by God… Berkeley took care to establish that our sense organs are themselves ideas. Jul 02, Mary rated it really liked it. Jorge Reyes marked it as to-read Feb 17, Andrew rated it it was amazing Sep 29, Ivarbjoe rated it really liked it Apr 19,
Then came Berkeley, who simply observed that nothing in the Genesis story [of creation] was changed whether one accepted or denied the existence of matter. He then concluded, and quite logically, that, if it is neither possible to know nor necessary to believe that the external world exists, the wisest thing to say is simply that matter does not exist. Was the existence of the external world in question? As for Berkeley, it is evident that our sensations come to us through our sense organs and that they are not produced in us immediately by God… Berkeley took care to establish that our sense organs are themselves ideas.
Moreover… if you wish to argue on the basis of common sense it will be necessary to first ask why, since common sense is universal by definition, Berkeley and Fichte were the only two men deprived of it.
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As Berkeley repeated so many times, things are what we perceive them to be because our ideas are the things. The difference between mathematical laws and whether God exists or does not exist can be demonstrated by applying the principle of non-contradiction: To say God exists or God does not exist contains no such manifest contradiction any more than the statement that all apples are green, or conversely, no apples are green — in neither case is the predicate contained in the subject in the case of the statement, all men are mortal, it would be a contradiction to say — no, some, or some men are not — mortal, since the predicate mortal is contained in the subject man.
Whether or no God exists can be compared to the position of my pencil on the page — there is no necessary reason that my pencil should be at this point on the paper rather than that.
The position of, adding to, or subtracting from a thing, necessarily changes that thing into something else. A thing that is true, real or existent must have sufficient reason why it must be thus true, real, or existent and not otherwise.