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036 - Xxxvi How Our Intellect Forms A Proposition About God · Summa Contra Gentiles, First Book (On God)

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  Speaker 1: Chapter thirty six of Summa Contragentilees, First Book on God
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  Speaker 1: by Saint Thomas aquinas translated by the Fathers of the
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  Speaker 1: English Dominican Province. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 1: Chapter thirty six How our intellect forms a proposition about God?
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  Speaker 1: From this, it is more overclear that our intellect does
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  Speaker 1: not vainly form propositions about a simple God by composition
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  Speaker 1: and division, although God is altogether simple. For although our
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  Speaker 1: intellect arrives at the knowledge of God by various conceptions,
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  Speaker 1: as stated above, it understands that what corresponds to them
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  Speaker 1: all is absolutely one, because our intellect does not ascribe
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  Speaker 1: its mode of understanding to the things which it understands,
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  Speaker 1: even as neither does it ascribe immateriality to a stone,
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  Speaker 1: although it knows it materially. Consequently, it enunciates the unity
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  Speaker 1: of the thing by a verbal composition implying identity, when
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  Speaker 1: it says God is good or is goodness, so that
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  Speaker 1: if there be any diversity in the composition, it is
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  Speaker 1: referred to the understanding and unity to the thing understood. Similarly,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes our intellect forms a proposition about God with an
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  Speaker 1: implication of diversity by inserting a preposition, as when we
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  Speaker 1: say goodness is in God, because here we imply both
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  Speaker 1: a certain diversity that is befitting the understanding, and a
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  Speaker 1: certain unity which must be referred to the thing. End
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  Speaker 1: of Chapter thirty six read by Michael Shane, Craig, Lambert, Elsie,