Analogy and the Semantics of Simplicity: Learning form the Limits of Theological Language | Prof. Joshua Hochschild

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🗓️ 7 January 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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This lecture was given on May 31st, 2024, at Mount Saint Mary College.

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About the Speaker:

Joshua Hochschild is Professor of Philosophy at Mount St. Mary’s University, where he also served six years as the inaugural Dean of the College of Liberal Arts. His primary research is in medieval logic, metaphysics, and ethics, with broad interest in liberal education and the continuing relevance of the Catholic intellectual tradition. He is the author of The Semantics of Analogy: Rereading Cajetan’s De Nominum Analogia (2010), translator of Claude Panaccio’s Mental Language: From Plato to William of Ockham (2017), and co-author of A Mind at Peace: Reclaiming an Ordered Soul in the Age of Distraction (2017). His writing has appeared in First Things, Commonweal, Modern Age and the Wall Street Journal. For 2020-21 he served as President of the American Catholic Philosophical Association.

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1:01.7	Analogy in the semantics of simplicity, learning from the limits of theological language.
1:08.2	The doctrine of divine simplicity poses challenges for account of how we can adequately express
1:15.1	in language, truths about God.
1:18.5	For obvious examples, we can turn to Aristotle and Scripture.
1:23.1	Aristotle's description of God as thought thinking itself in book 12 of the metaphysics is an attempt to capture
1:28.8	a pure, incomposite actuality using a sentence with subject, verb, object, structure that identifies
1:35.9	an agent with both its activity and the terminus of that activity. And the Exodus account of God's
1:42.9	name revealed to Moses, I am who am, also strains the
1:47.9	rules of human grammar to express that common distinctions in creatures between the individual,
1:54.2	what the individual is, and the being of the individual are somehow transcended by the creator.
2:04.1	Now, the kinds of challenges divine simplicity poses for an account of divine naming depend largely on prior
2:08.8	assumptions about how language works in general and so meeting the challenges
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