For realism,the ultimate rational standard is the law of non-contradiction because the basic proposition for the intellect requires:Being is not non-being.The One of Plotinus is beyond being,but the Intellect,emanated...For realism,the ultimate rational standard is the law of non-contradiction because the basic proposition for the intellect requires:Being is not non-being.The One of Plotinus is beyond being,but the Intellect,emanated from the One,has being and is also one.With essence and existence,Aquinas endeavors to serve faith with reason in that God is defined as being itself according to the name of God who revealed to Moses.Writing for the atheists in his Five Ways,Aquinas defines God with five names,and his conclusion from the Third Way is the existence of a necessary being.The One is timeless without will;the necessary being exists in time;if I Am Who I Am is understood rationally with essence and existence,then the Biblical God becomes a god of intellect.Being itself is neither life-giving nor holy.Regarding time,being itself can be viewed as a compromise of the One and the necessary being of the Five Ways.展开更多
基金Current project:The Study of the Separation of Judaism and Early Christianity on the Texts,Ideas,and Community(犹太教和早期基督教“文本、思想和社群”的分离研究),awarded by the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China,number:22JJD73001.
文摘For realism,the ultimate rational standard is the law of non-contradiction because the basic proposition for the intellect requires:Being is not non-being.The One of Plotinus is beyond being,but the Intellect,emanated from the One,has being and is also one.With essence and existence,Aquinas endeavors to serve faith with reason in that God is defined as being itself according to the name of God who revealed to Moses.Writing for the atheists in his Five Ways,Aquinas defines God with five names,and his conclusion from the Third Way is the existence of a necessary being.The One is timeless without will;the necessary being exists in time;if I Am Who I Am is understood rationally with essence and existence,then the Biblical God becomes a god of intellect.Being itself is neither life-giving nor holy.Regarding time,being itself can be viewed as a compromise of the One and the necessary being of the Five Ways.
