25th Aquinas Lecture

Well the lecture I went to yesterday was one of the best I have ever heard!

The topic was Nature, Freedom, and Will. Several titans battled it out and here is my totals:

1st Place: St. Augustine - For his groundbreaking work on the will (introduces it as a notion). (20 points!)

2nd Place: St. Aquinas - For understanding 'nature' is not a power enduring in things & that the will, like, nature might fail to act when all conditions are present. (15 pts)

3rd Place: Bl. Duns Scotus - For positing that the will inherently is indeterminable, basic, immediate, and cannot be reasoned to... just is. (10 pts)

Honorable Mentions:

Avicenna - For his definition/distinction of per se in Nature. (5 pts)
John Peter Olivi - For his theory of the "One Instant Angel" (3 pts)
Aristotle - For his Model Theory & Ethics, but penatlized for having no words for 'will.' (1 pt)
Dr. Timothy Noone - For his awesome lecture (.05 pts)
Dr. William Frank - For his awesome questions (.03 pts)
Henry of Ghent - For showing up and acting as comic relief. (-5 pts)

That is my ruling... any questions?

~awesome sean

A.S. It was soooo AWESOME!