Saturday, June 21, 2025

Shields on Aquinas on the Unmoved Mover

My review of Daniel Shields’ important recent book Nature and Nature’s God: A Philosophical and Scientific Defense of Aquinas’s Unmoved Mover Argument appears in the July 2025 issue of The Thomist.

2 comments:

  1. The book is published by the Catholic University of America Press, which publishes many excellent books on Thomistic philosophy.

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  2. What do you think of Daniel’s comments about you on his blog saying that you may have mischaracterized act and potency? Specifically, about how parts of a substance are in potency to the whole. Here is what he said:

    https://danielshields.info/2024/02/19/feser-on-potency-and-act/

    https://danielshields.info/2024/03/10/further-thoughts-on-act-and-potency/

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