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From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Professor Wagstaff)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: St. Thomas Aquinas
Message-ID: <761@pyuxd.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 25-Mar-85 20:24:22 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 25 20:24:22 1985
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>>>Rich, you seem to think that the arguments you bring against christianity
>>>are new.  They're not.  Most of the things you've brought up were argued
>>>against by Aquinas, and there are lots of responses to them through the
>>>years.  I don't suppose you've bothered reading any of them, though.
>>>[WINGATE]
>
>>Aquinas believed that women were produced by "defective" circumstances
>>(Ia.92.I): if conception took place under completely "natural" circumstances
>>males would always result ("for the active force of the male seed intends to
>>produce something similar to itself, perfect in its masculinity"), but if
>>some peculiarity intervened - a defect in sperm or seed or the prevalence of
>>a moist south wind at the time of conception - females would be born.
>>[BROWER?]

> Would someone please post a definition of the word "ad hominem"?
>	[RALPH HARTLEY]

I'm not sure how it would be useful here.  Wingate spoke about the eloquence
of the logic of Aquinas as being used in a period of rational christian
enlightenment, and Brower showed just hoe "enlightened" that was---replete
with the same misconceptions and preconceptions that have dogged such thinking
for centuries.
-- 
"Discipline is never an end in itself, only a means to an end."
						Rich Rosen   pyuxd!rlr