Comments on Joshua Lee Harris’s Essay (2017) Analogy in Aquinas

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Cover of the book Comments on Joshua Lee Harris’s Essay (2017) Analogy in Aquinas by Razie Mah, Razie Mah
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Author: Razie Mah ISBN: 9781942824336
Publisher: Razie Mah Publication: April 29, 2017
Imprint: Smashwords Edition Language: English
Author: Razie Mah
ISBN: 9781942824336
Publisher: Razie Mah
Publication: April 29, 2017
Imprint: Smashwords Edition
Language: English

This work comments an essay titled, “Analogy in Aquinas: The Alston-Wolterstorff Debate Revisited”. The author is Joshua Lee Harris. The article appears in the January 2017 edition of the Faith and Philosophy: Journal of the Society of Christian Philosophers (34:33-56).
Thomas Aquinas’s doctrine of analogy has been the focal point of many inquiries. Harris’s essay starts with three basics for understanding the doctrine. These are incorporated into a model of actuality as two contiguous elements.
Harris then goes over the debate between two modern analytic philosophers, William Alston and Nicholas Wolterstorff. He covers Alston first, then Wolterstorff’s response. Harris shows that Alston is closer to the Aquinas than Wolterstorff. At the end, he refutes Alston’s argument.
All this is well and good. The exposition is clear. However, re-articulating Harris’s discussion, in terms of the category-based nested form, messes up that clarity, but with good results. Something becomes apparent.
The scholastic semantic triangle contains internal tensions. Alston alters that tension. Then, Wolterstorff reconfigures what Alston accomplished, squeezing the issue of analogy into a narrowly defined frame that tests a particular proposition. Here is the question addressed by this proposition: What properties are shared by both Creator and creature?
In sum, the category-based nested form moves Harris’s exposition from static analysis into dynamic associations and implications. Features are revealed. They take on lives of their own. Harris’s didactic points acquire an evocative, exploratory flavor. Aquinas’s doctrine of analogy comes alive, along with the debate, in surprising ways.

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This work comments an essay titled, “Analogy in Aquinas: The Alston-Wolterstorff Debate Revisited”. The author is Joshua Lee Harris. The article appears in the January 2017 edition of the Faith and Philosophy: Journal of the Society of Christian Philosophers (34:33-56).
Thomas Aquinas’s doctrine of analogy has been the focal point of many inquiries. Harris’s essay starts with three basics for understanding the doctrine. These are incorporated into a model of actuality as two contiguous elements.
Harris then goes over the debate between two modern analytic philosophers, William Alston and Nicholas Wolterstorff. He covers Alston first, then Wolterstorff’s response. Harris shows that Alston is closer to the Aquinas than Wolterstorff. At the end, he refutes Alston’s argument.
All this is well and good. The exposition is clear. However, re-articulating Harris’s discussion, in terms of the category-based nested form, messes up that clarity, but with good results. Something becomes apparent.
The scholastic semantic triangle contains internal tensions. Alston alters that tension. Then, Wolterstorff reconfigures what Alston accomplished, squeezing the issue of analogy into a narrowly defined frame that tests a particular proposition. Here is the question addressed by this proposition: What properties are shared by both Creator and creature?
In sum, the category-based nested form moves Harris’s exposition from static analysis into dynamic associations and implications. Features are revealed. They take on lives of their own. Harris’s didactic points acquire an evocative, exploratory flavor. Aquinas’s doctrine of analogy comes alive, along with the debate, in surprising ways.

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