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“Give me Thomas Aquinas…Don’t Give me Ayn Rand”
Catholic World Report ^ | 4/26/12 | Catherine Harmon

Posted on 04/27/2012 6:51:48 AM PDT by marshmallow

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“Give me Thomas Aquinas…Don’t Give me Ayn Rand”
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21 posted on 04/27/2012 4:14:58 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: STD
I agree with you on "Don't give me Mitt Romney."

But why would you ever want Ron Paul? I would never vote for him either.

Ron Paul is dangerous.

Ron Paul, Soros and Defense

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4q1vYx1V3g&feature=related

Before everyone gets their panties in a wad. Obama is already starting to make the moves to destroy our military.
Ron Paul will just drive the knife into their backs.
I thought it was clever how the Obama military haters are going to cut Benefits for veterans and wounded soldiers.
Wonder how far enlistment will drop on that one.

 

One of Ron Pauls best friends is George Soros..

http://www.orangepower.com/threads/george-soros-evil.95549/


22 posted on 04/27/2012 4:18:13 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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Completely agree re Rand's heavy-handedness, hence my 2x4 reference.
At that point in my youthful ignorance/arrogance, anything more subtle probably wouldn't have gotten through.
So in that respect AS was a success.

Though convinced there's Something Out There in charge of this whole mess, I'll readily admit to not being much of a religious guy.
And it's been literally decades since college philosophy, assuming that any of it actually sunk in past exam retention depth to begin with ;-)
Hence, several of the terms/phrases you listed are either new to me or have been lost from memory in the mists of advancing years.

Thanks for bringing them up .. will do some non-FR research out of curiosity.
It'll be a welcome break after reading the circular firing squad that the latest FReepathon thread has become.


23 posted on 04/27/2012 5:27:16 PM PDT by tomkat (para bellum)
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To: backwoods-engineer

Mortimer Adler, the educator and philosopher, was enthralled by St. Thomas, and because of him became a Thomist, and toward the end of his life, a Catholic. No clearer writer and teacher than Adler. I once got by mistake a film on Epicetus presented by Adler. For the heck of it I showed it to my calculus class in place of the film I had intended to show. They were enthralled! He was a master at making the complex seem simple. Even Bertrand Russell, the atheist philosopher, said that Thomas was a master logician: Accept his premises and one could not avoid his conclusions.


24 posted on 04/27/2012 11:10:56 PM PDT by RobbyS (Christus rex.)
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