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Of course, it is quite possible, for a right minded philosopher, to find purely speculative obstacles to the acceptance of Thomism. When such is the case, the problem is of a purely philosophical nature; its solution rests with the intellect, not with the will. Page 49 8. Summa Theologica, I-II, q. 57, a. 1, Answer; in Basic Writings, II, 430. The same doctrine is maintained in De Virtutibus in Communi, art. " The same conclusion applies to art, which is a habit of the practical intellect. An artist can make works of art, but his inclination to make them is not in his art, it is in his will.
He is president of the Franco-Canadian Institute, president of the Society of Catholic Authors at Paris, a member of the Se- Page ix cours Catholique International and of Pax Romana, before which he has lectured in Rome. Professor Gilson entered the Conseil de la Republique, the upper house or senate of the present French government in 1946. He was technical adviser to the French delegation to the San Francisco Conference that same year, composing the French text of the Charter of the United Nations.
Metaphysicians are here groping their way in too much light, as they would in too much darkness. Metaphysics is a difficult science. In point of fact, Thomas says that it is the most difficult of all, and metaphysicians themselves know this fact but too well. So the wisest among them bide their time, but when they realize that time is running short, they too have to "make up their minds," not indeed out of impatience or in an arbitrary way, but, on the contrary, because their long-suffering love of wisdom is entitled to receive its reward.
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