Brian Skinner

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here Aristotle points the way. “As Aristotle himself shows,” Aquinas writes in the Summa Contra Gentiles, “man’s ultimate happiness consists of seeking the knowledge of truth” through reason.24 Then as we move forward, we discover that truths human and divine, the objects of reason and those of faith, actually reinforce each other. They don’t form parallel tracks, as Averroës claimed. They ultimately converge: not just in God their Supreme Creator, but in ourselves as human beings.
The Cave and the Light: Plato Versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization
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