Michael Humpherys
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Roman Catholic | Actuary | Student of Aquinas Usury Catechism: https://t.co/gRNP7BeygB Podcast: https://t.co/sLjb3HjYld
Joined July 2021
This books contains my defense and clarification of the Angelic Doctor’s arguments against usury and my argument against several common and traditional excuses for usury. https://t.co/ZHMRoIRtBv
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Until recently it has been commonplace to believe that Vatican II represents a permanent sidelining of the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas for theology. The do...
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I'm always really surprised by the depth of learning of Aristotle. How much of a flex is it to give all your works Latin names before Rome mattered.
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No man is born a slave, but men endowed with riches, internal and external, were born to be benefactors, stewards and mentors to those without.
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Marriage is not for cowards and sentimentalists. It is the ordinary school of charity in which you bear two crosses on your way to heaven.
What's your unpopular opinion about marriage that will get you in this position?
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It seems that the seller greatly disadvantaged by selling his thing raising the price is a matter of equity, for the end of selling is for the mutual advantage even if it does not follow the form of equality of thing for thing.
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6000 words in and I'm excited to keep expanding the thesis.
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Well another water heater down and a new one installed. Apparently the bottom was completely rusted out. Glad to have caught it before my utility room became an indoor swimming pool.
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Guess whose got two thumbs and getting the Complete Works of Aristotle.
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Aquinas Commentary on the Sentences continues to be another vast sort of understanding his thinking.
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Went over my outline with my director. Got the go-ahead to start writing the thesis.
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Time preference? (more likely the harvest as more actual) Giles of Lessines, meet St. Albert Magnus. Sent IV, d. 15, a. 43, ad. 3 https://t.co/3p27qI3KYM
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If we use the ice in a White Russian, does that complete the consecration of Russia?
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Really hopeful that the canonist, Leo XIV, reaffirms and clarifies the doctrine of usury, because historically the devil used the wallet in the back of the pants to get to the front.
🧵💯Anyone who thinks the issue is primarily about the death penalty itself is naive. That's always been a proxy for a larger progressive agenda, a way to set a precedent for other doctrinal reversals. That's why ambiguity here must be resisted tooth and nail, as long as it takes
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Aquinomix Conference Paper: Lucrum vel Usura: St. Thomas Aquinas on Economic Value, Contracts and Usury https://t.co/7O6leoylJt
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Brother Francis Gerard
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If nothing else, Bohm is a master of contrived thought experiments.
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Much like usury itself, lucrum cessans depends first on what ius, if any, exists. Questions of predictability refer to valuation which presupposes a ius that is being paid or compensated for.
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Sometimes one can see through all of the disordered affections of a person and realize he could be such a great saint if he weren’t such a jerk.
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