Quite right, and that's a more accurate title than "Dominican." (The Wikipedia article is pretty good.) Anthony Kenny was the long-time teaching partner of McCabe, whom I took as the example, at Oxford. A good sketch of the course of modern Thomism, analytic and not, is the Dominican Fergus Kerr's "After Aquinas: Versions of Thomism" (2002). --CGE
farmelantj at juno.com wrote:
> The third school that Estabrook refers to looks a lot like the current that
> has come to be known as "analytic Thomism," which attempts to read Aquinas in
> light of analytical philosophy.
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytical_Thomism)
>
> Certainly people like Elizabeth Anscombe (who was a student of Wittgenstein),
> Peter Geach, and Anthony Kenny (an ex-Catholic priest, and for that matter an
> ex-Catholic) would qualify as members of this stream.
>
> Jim F.
>
>
> ---------- Original Message ---------- From: "C. G. Estabrook"
> <galliher at illinois.edu> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Subject: Re: [lbo-talk]
> papal logic Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:51:57 -0500
>
> [3] A third school, particularly in N. Europe-UK, that might be called
> "Dominican" from the religious order that has produced its principal members.
> Marx, Thomas, and Wittgenstein are all influences but this school rejects
> the -isms associated with each. The best representative to my mind is the
> late Herbert McCabe; his posthumous books include "The Good Life" (2005), on
> the currently-fashionable virtue ethics, and "On Aquinas" (2008). The British
> critic Terry Eagleton -- whose Yale lectures "Reason, Faith, and Revolution:
> Reflections on the God Debate" are, as it happens, published today -- wrote
> in the preface to his influential "After Theory" (2003), "The influence of
> the late Herbert McCabe is so pervasive on my argument that it is impossible
> to localize."
>
> (Chris is right about Rome and Darwin, too, and even the contretemps that
> occurred ca. 1950 grew out of essentially unrelated matters associated with
> the document Humani generis [1950] and the peculiar but interesting work of
> Pierre Teilhard de Chardin [d. 1955], the Jesuit who was involved in the
> discovery of Peking Man.) --CGE
>
> Chris Doss wrote:
>> Here's another hilarious example of this. I went to grad school at a
>> Catholic university surrounded by Catholic intellectuals. If you don't have
>> much experience with American Catholic philosophers, I'll just briefly
>> explain that they tend to be either irritating-as-fuck hyperconservative
>> Thomists or left-leaning (on economic issues, at least) phenomenologists.
>> Anyway the Thomists (all recognizable by their haircuts) are fond of
>> decrying everybody who is not as conservative as them as being wishy-washy
>> cafeteria Catholics.
>>
>> Until the Pope said that the Iraq War was an abomination in the eyes of
>> God. Then, they started complaining about the pacifists in the Vatican.