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Under the Auspices of Wisconsin-Alpha Chapter of the Phi Sigma Tau
by Anton C. Pegis, F.R.S.C., LL.D.
MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY PRESS MILWAUKEE 1964
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Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 64-17418
Copyright 1964 By the Wisconsin-Alpha Chapter of the Phi Sigma Tau Marquette University Second Printing, 1975
ISBN 0-87462-129-1
Printed in U.S.A.
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To Etienne Gilson Teacher and Friend
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Prefatory
The Wisconsin-Alpha Chapter of Phi Sigma Tau, the National Honor Society for Philosophy at Marquette University, each year invites a scholar to deliver a lecture in honor of St. Thomas Aquinas, whose feast day is March 7. These lectures are called the Aquinas Lectures, and are customarily given on the second Sunday of March.
In 1964 the Aquinas Lecture "St. Thomas and Philosophy" was delivered on March 8 in the Peter A. Brooks Memorial Union of Marquette University by Dr. Anton C. Pegis, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Professor of Philosophy, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, and the University of Toronto.
Professor Pegis was born in Milwaukee on August 24, 1905. He earned his A.B. at Marquette University in 1928 and his M.A. in 1929. In the fall of that year he began his doctoral studies at the Institute of Mediaeval Studies, which had begun that year under the direction of Professor Eti-
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enne Gilson and received its pontifical charter ten years later. Two years later Professor Pegis earned his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto and returned to Marquette University as an instructor and then assistant professor. In 1937 he became a member of the graduate faculty of Fordham University. During his last two years at Fordham, Professor Pegis also lectured at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies (Toronto). In 1946 he was named President of the Institute, and retained this position until 1954, when he became editor of the Catholic textbook division of Doubleday Publishing Company. He returned to the Institute and teaching in 1961.
In the domain of Christian philosophy, Professor Pegis is a leading American scholar, whose work as editor, lecturer, and teacher has been directed to a better appreciation of the influence of Christian thought on philosophical understanding. In 1946 he was elected president of the American Catholic Philosophical Association. He was chosen to give the third Aquinas Lecture (Marquette University)
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in 1939, the Gabriel Richard Lecture (St. Louis University) in 1955, the McAuley Lecture (St. Joseph's College, West Hartford) in 1960, and the St. Augustine Lecture (Villanova University) in 1962. His special interest has been the Christian philosophy of man, beginning with his doctoral dissertation on the problem of the human soul. Progressively deeper analysis of this problem has led Dr. Pegis to a new appraisal of what Christian philosophy is or should be, if it were true to the mind of St. Thomas.
His published works include: The Problem of the Soul in the 13th Century (Toronto: Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1934); St. Thomas and the Greeks (Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 1939); Christian Philosophy and Intellectual Freedom (Milwaukee: Bruce, 1955); At the Origins of the Thomistic Notion of Man (New York: Macmillan, 1963); The Middle Ages and Philosophy (Chicago: Regnery, 1963).
He translated and edited the two-volume Basic Writings of St. Thomas Aquinas (New York: Random House, 1944) and
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the one-volume Introduction to St. Thomas (New York: Modern Library, 1948). In addition, he edited the English translation of the Summa Contra Gentiles, the five-volume On the Truth of the Catholic Faith (Garden City: Doubleday and Company, Inc. 1956).
To this list of published works, Phi Sigma Tau is pleased to add: St. Thomas and Philosophy.
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St. Thomas and Philosophy
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When, in the fifth volume of his monumental history of world systems, Pierre Duhem reached St. Thomas Aquinas, what attracted his attention was what appeared to him to be an unresolved situation. Between the philosophy of the philosophers, as expounded by his teacher Albert, and Albert's own Christian philosophy there remained many points of disagreement. Were the arguments of the philosophers conclusive? If so, why did they lead to so many errors about God, creation, man, the soul, and the intellect? Or did philosophy have its own set of "truths," which were "true" because they had been demonstrated while Christianity proposed another set of "truths'' known by revelation? In short, as between the philosophers and his own
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faith, did the Christian live in a sort of no man's land between two worlds whose truths contradicted one another?1
The work of St. Thomas was for Duhem the effort of a Christian soul to escape from this perilous situation.
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