Aula Scholastica 

The doctrine of intentional existence gives us the solution of Aristotle and St. Thomas to what has come to be called in the history of philosophy the problem of the universals. The answer to the question, What is the nature of ideas? is one of the most important and revealing that can be asked of any philosopher, for it is the key not only to what he holds about the nature of thought but also to his teaching on man and the universe. Philosophies can be classified according t

Kinds of communication The communication between lifeless bodies is limited strictly to an immediate physical impact, a momentary instant of contact an entirely surface communication. A purely physical being receives another being only in the most superficial manner as a cup takes in water or a pail, sand. Any more intimate communication means that physical things lose their identity, becoming something else; the union of hydrogen and oxygen, for example, results in a third t