A little or very concerned about the opacity of this chapter but as I continued to plod on, I can see the value.
Aquinas’ thesis shines through in that a unified discourse held together by some authority political or religious provides a bedrock on which inquiry and judgment can take place.
Turning on SCOTUS and Eckhardt he shows how the destruction of the Aquinas’ synthesis was ignored and destroyed. From the former we have the separation of theology and philosophy, and where philosophy became independent and institutionalized. This led to fragmentation which eventually led to the dethronement of philosophy in the 19 th century and which continues today -
From Eckhardt he shows that rhetoric replaces reason and theology, and rightly condemned by the Church. Leads to populism which is also fragmentary and unavailable for judgment. While there is something rationality, all statements must be brought together for this judgment.
