Le Sens du Mystère et le Clair-Obscur Intellectuel: Nature et Surnaturel
| Authors | Garrigou-Lagrange, Réginald, O.P. |
| Publisher | Desclée, de Brouwer & Cie |
| Published | 01 set 1934 |
| Date | 15 set 2012 |
| Languages | fra |
| Identifiers | url: https://archive.org/stream/GarrigouLagrangeFrench/Le Sens du Mystere et le Clair-Obscur Inte - Garrigou-Lagrange%2C Reginald%2C O.P_, uri: https://archive.org/details/GarrigouLagrangeFrench, lcn: B765 .T54 G19 |
| Formats | DJVU, PDF, PDF_OCR |
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English translation: The Sense of Mystery: Clarity and Obscurity in the Intellectual Life (2018)
A very profound quote from Fr. G.-L. (p. 128):
il [saint Thomas] ne craint ni la logique, ni le mystère, et la première le mène au second¹.
The footnote is interesting, too:
1. Jamais saint Thomas n'aurait admis comme Suarez que le principe de contradiction ne s'applique pas dans la Trinité; il s'y applique selon un mode éminent qui nous reste caché, et nul ne peut montrer que ce mystère implique contradiction.
Suarez held there could be an exception to the law of non-contradiction?
(Also, I was thinking today that the word ἀνάλογος would best be translated "higher logic".)
As Feingold mentions, Le Sens du Mystère ddresses the question of the relations of nature and grace, natural desire to see God (which is important for understanding the relation between marriage and virginity; cf. Bourassa)
esprit de géométrie et l’esprit de finesse
Fr. G.-L. (pp. 64-8 // PDF pp. 58-63), discussing the certitude of prudence, quotes I-II q. 57 a. 5 ("Whether prudence is a virtue necessary to man?") ad 3:
- "verum intellectus speculativi accipitur per conformitatem intellectus ad rem "
- "Verum autem intellectus practici accipitur per conformitatem ad appetitum rectum." ← Fr. G.-L.: "esprit de finesse", "connaissance par sympathie"
Interestingly, Fr. G.-L., after quoting Pascal's Pensées, identifies l’esprit de finesse with the practical intellect. Is Duhem's bon sens intellection "per conformitatem ad appetitum rectum"?
cf.:
- Réginald Garrigou Lagrange O.P., “Remarks Concerning the Metaphysical Character of St. Thomas’s Moral Theology, in Particular as It Is Related to Prudence and Conscience,” trans. Matthew K. Minerd, Nova et Vetera 17 (March 13, 2019): 245–70.
ch. Le verbe être :
- p. 80 (PDF p. 75): Mt. 5:77 ("sic sic, non non"); 2 Cor. 1:17-19 ("Est et Non, sed Est in illo fuit")
- p. 99 (PDF p. 94): S. Caterina da Siena's: "I am who am; you are she who is not."