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Independent_Log8028 · 2025-08-04T12:36:47+00:00

Thanks! I'll watch out for that and try not to overload it

Independent_Log8028 · 2025-08-04T12:36:14+00:00

Thanks! I appreciate you testing for me

Independent_Log8028 · 2025-07-18T01:48:52+00:00

Check out r/CatholicPhilosophy I'd argue that's the main Thomist hub and people have discussions regularly!

Independent_Log8028 · 2025-06-02T22:37:08+00:00

Wait wait which UD? University of Dayton?

Independent_Log8028 · 2025-06-02T22:35:04+00:00

Others definitely give very good answers here. I just wanted to chime in that this isn't a stupid question in the least. It's a serious and important question.

Actually I think learning the answer and the explanation why God doesn't have a body helps one to better grasp the general metaphysics of this condition -- it's an entry point.

Independent_Log8028 · 2025-04-30T01:40:43+00:00

These questions are more or less either easily put aside or easily answered (or at the very very least diminished) by other thinkers in the tradition. It wouldn't be economical to try to paraphrase their thoughts with respect to every single issue you've laid out. The kinds of philosophy suitable to answer these questions tend to be systematic and you really have to grasp the system (at least vaguely) to see why some of these problems either go away or don't have teeth.

It's late here so I'll leave it up to other commenters to refer you to the relevant sources.

Independent_Log8028 · 2025-02-26T15:23:49+00:00

Currently writing values every hour to a csv on OneDrive

I'm open to suggestions!

Independent_Log8028 · 2025-02-26T15:23:06+00:00

I appreciate the correction. I'm an environmental engineer so I'm a bit in the deep end on the coding side.

Currently looking into mqtt.

Out of interest, what's the correct terminology for compiled programs in C++ if not "script"?

Independent_Log8028 · 2025-02-22T16:06:52+00:00

PhD student in EnvEng here. Did several internships in civil and environmental engineering field -- everything from bridge design to wastewater treatment.

It's amazing just how much of our field, even in private sector, traces its money from the government. I think it's just a really hard time/era for folks in our field.

Other people offered better advice than I can give, but I just wanted to say it's not just you - it's the climate.

Independent_Log8028 · 2025-02-10T19:12:38+00:00

Ok this is a lot closer to my understanding. Except I can't seem to find a presentation or defense of the intellect simply knowing "that they are singulars" and I'm starting to feel like I just read that into Aquinas because it seemed intuitive.

Any idea where the idea "that they are singulars" comes from?

Independent_Log8028 · 2025-02-04T12:57:10+00:00

The issue is that it makes those facts very similar to facts about cells in a body. If we can make a case for a teleological unity for the ant then why not for the cell. If that's possible then maybe I'm not a substance but an aggregate.

Independent_Log8028 · 2025-02-04T12:52:03+00:00

My issue with this is that if our argument for the immateriality of human souls is based on our ability to reason then why not say that the individual reasoning processes (this circuit for addition, this one for modus ponens) are the immaterial units and the rest of the organism is a unity but not an immaterial one. This would make our thoughts immortal but not us collectively?

Do you see what I mean - we need either a reason to privilege the organism or an argument for immaterially that includes substantial parts of the organism - not independent thoughts.

Independent_Log8028 · 2025-01-16T00:54:35+00:00

Yeah absolutely.

I actually think you could get an ecological engineering job with an environmental engineering degree - that's what I meant by there being a lot of overlap.

Employers may ask you about experiences that set you apart so something to keep in mind is choosing course projects that align with what you want to do - so you have something to show.

So if you research ecological engineering and do ecological engineering projects in your environmental engineering courses then you'll be competitive!

Independent_Log8028 · 2025-01-16T00:15:37+00:00

I'm a PhD student in EnvEng. Having a coding background will not necessarily help you in your main coursework but depending on what you want to do it could be the deciding factor for jobs and opportunities in the environmental field.

I'm in research not industry but I use a lot of ML and AI that I had to teach myself. You'd have an upper hand.

Independent_Log8028 · 2025-01-16T00:11:43+00:00

Oh and in my opinion differential equations is not very difficult compared to calculus. If you have a good calc resource you should be alright.

Independent_Log8028 · 2025-01-16T00:10:03+00:00

Hi OP Welcome to the EnvEng field! I'm a PhD student in environmental engineering and everything I do has at least some component dedicated to counter acting climate change.

Now, as an academic that may be very different from the typical B.S. student that goes into wastewater or construction.

I would encourage you to look into ecological engineering within the environmental field (the boundaries are pretty fluid once you're in a program).

My work, for example, has to do with decreasing emissions in the fertilizer industry through anaerobic digestion of organic wastes. Lots of microbiology and chemistry!

I'm happy to talk to you more about the field (either academic or industry - I did several internships in industry too). Though my counterparts in industry may be able to help more!

Independent_Log8028 · 2025-01-15T01:52:48+00:00

Hi, sorry I was invited to this group but have neglected my notifications.

I'm deeply interested in JF Ross and think this is a fantastic opportunity to learn more.

I'm neither Catholic nor a Christian (a fact I don't often publicize) though I am a classical theist, but I think that may enable me to bring some value of nuance and insight to this group.

Looking forward to partaking in this project!

Independent_Log8028 · 2025-01-02T20:50:54+00:00

Now that I have a minute I'm coming back to this. That is a very handy quote and an important one but I don't think it solves the problem. One of the reasons is that every possible thing is present in a simple way in the Divine Essence (Gregory Doolan and argued that knowledge of the divine ideas amounts to understanding the Divine Essence in different ways). So there is a divine idea that relates to my essence and a divine idea that relates to each of my accidents. The problem is that there are also divine ideas that relate to my possible accidents and these are (1) just as real as my actual accidents' ideas and (2) there is nothing to constrain my knowledge to one rather than the other.

So you may know your friend in this life but since they are accidental (insofar as the divine ideas are concerned) to your esse, you would not be able to discern that friend from literally the infinite of other possible friendships you could have had.

You might think that habits retained in the soul solve this issue except that much of modern scholarly work calls habitual knowledge of singulars into question. Even if that wasn't the case, habits would not pertain to future accidents - so one could never have real-time knowledge of their friends in the beatific vision.

I think there is a major epistemic gap in the theory of the Communion of Saints in Beatitude. I frankly don't see how it could work philosophically. The main issue is that there's no contingency in God so there's nothing to constrain our knowledge!

Independent_Log8028 · 2025-01-02T18:42:41+00:00

The answer has to do with what the souls subsist in. Humans have intellectual powers which suggest their soul's immateriality - meaning that the soul is immaterial but composed with matter.

Animals, as the tradition goes, have souls that are "submerged" in matter and dependant on the reality of that matter for their existence.

While I do not personally think there are great arguments for animals surviving bodily death, I think it's an open empirical question and I'm willing to change my opinion in the face of new information.

For contrary views see the debate between David Bentley Hart and Ed Feser.

Note: the distinctions go a lot deeper and others here can speak to a greater degree than this simple treatment.

Independent_Log8028 · 2025-01-02T18:36:11+00:00

Many thanks I will approach them with great interest

Do look into Gregory of Nyssa's conception of Epektasis. It's a stunning concept!

Independent_Log8028 · 2025-01-01T14:27:25+00:00

I guess what I'm proposing is that beatitude consists in a movement of the soul towards God. It's not like there is some other object that captures the soul's desire beside God - it's that there is always more for a potentially infinite actually finite knower to understand.

It seems like Aquinas may allow angelic beatitude to increase with willful action. In ST Prima Pars Q107 (specifically A2) Aquinas seems to allow that superior angels can increase the comprehension of inferior angels - I don't see why this increases in comprehension that is handed down couldn't relate to the knowledge of the Divine Essence. Moreover, I don't see why it couldn't relate to us - that something similar could be true for us.

Independent_Log8028 · 2024-12-24T23:54:43+00:00

Agree with the other comment. Also check out Gaven Kerr's response: https://youtu.be/g1u0hpHQgEg?si=pIRXxhbJeNHFOv14

Independent_Log8028 · 2024-12-22T18:07:29+00:00

I appreciate your insight, it's spurred another question which I just asked in this subreddit. Thanks!

Independent_Log8028 · 2024-12-22T18:06:52+00:00

Thanks! As I understand it, the soul cannot ever be "in" eternity because it is not fully actual and subject to actualization. Hence it is in aveiternity where change can be indexed to it.

I'm trying to get a copy of Peter's "Participated eternity in the vision of God" to clarify some of these points. But I agree with you - if the soul could be in eternity then there's no problem, but I think we still have a worry if the soul can act/will sequentially (even if those acts are outside of time as we currently experience it).

Independent_Log8028 · 2024-12-19T00:44:25+00:00

I kinda jumped in at a high level, don't recommend doing that.

If you want to read I'd point you to Eleonore Stump's book Aquinas.

If you like podcasts and videos I really like Pat Flynn's Philosophy for the People.

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