Tuesday, November 17, 2009

"Thomam aufer, mutus fiet Aristoteles"

"Thomam aufer, mutus fiet Aristoteles" (remove Thomas and Aristoteles will fall silent) Antonio Cittadini (aristotelico del Rinascimento, corrispondente di Pico della Mirandola)


Christum aufer, mutus fiet mundus
Remove Christ, [and] the universe will fall silent.

I.e., become incapable of articulate speech; be rendered mute or inarticulate; be struck dumb (cf. Ps. 19:1-4). Peter M. Candler after Antonio Cittandini (Thomae aufer, mutus fiet Aristoteles): "apart from Christ, the world cannot speak to us." In "The logic of Christian humanism," Communio: international Catholic review 36, no. 1 (Spring 2009): 79. Candler got Cittandini from Ralph McInerny, Praeambula fidei: Thomism and the God of the philosophers (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2006): 306.

http://liberlocorumcommunium.blogspot.com/2009/09/christum-aufer-mutus-fiet-mundus.html

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