[HN Gopher] Thomas Aquinas' works with English and original Lati...
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       Thomas Aquinas' works with English and original Latin presented in
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       Author : danielam
       Score  : 188 points
       Date   : 2021-07-06 12:07 UTC (10 hours ago)
        
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       | silent_cal wrote:
       | St Thomas was a man of prayer and a Galaxy Brain!
        
         | cbfrench wrote:
         | I'm prepared to go ahead and grant him Universe Brain status.
         | ;)
        
       | guerrilla wrote:
       | I like Aquinas, especially for his silly attempts to justify
       | Aristotle's particular choice of categories, which eventually led
       | to Occam proposing his razor... but why is this popular now?
        
         | silent_cal wrote:
         | He is much more satisfying to read than modern philosophers.
        
           | silent_cal wrote:
           | Because his philosophy is true.
        
       | tasty_freeze wrote:
       | Doesn't work for me on FF on windows 10.
       | 
       | There is no index on the left, the scrollbar thumb doesn't work,
       | and when you scroll down with the arrow keys, it goes only a few
       | paragraphs before stopping.
        
         | da_chicken wrote:
         | Works for me on FF 89.0.2 64-bit Win10 20H2.
        
           | tasty_freeze wrote:
           | odd, it works for me now too
        
       | SilasX wrote:
       | Wait is the English a translation or did he write them in both
       | languages? I'm guessing the former since the English seems too
       | modern (and writing both versions would be a lot of work).
        
         | TheFreim wrote:
         | It's a translation. It was originally written in Latin.
        
         | DemocracyFTW wrote:
         | cf. Ban Nuo Bo Luo Xin Jing  which is, in fact, thought to have
         | been first composed in Chinese, and later to be translated to
         | Sanskrit. Also Aquinas was a 13th c Italian who ended up in
         | Paris, so not altogether unreasonable that he did write in
         | England, in English, given his conventionalized first name. I
         | only say this to safeguard against comments along the lines
         | that were _my_ first impulse.
        
           | Finnucane wrote:
           | If Aquinas knew any English, it would have been more like
           | Chaucer's. It's unlikely he would have had any reason to
           | write books in English.
        
             | SilasX wrote:
             | Yeah that was one (of many) indicators the English wasn't
             | an original from Aquinas. I was just confused because
             | normally a translation will be marked as such, with the
             | translator's name.
        
       | yummypaint wrote:
       | It has been said that the quickest way to get a question answered
       | online is to prominently post the wrong answer. I feel like this
       | was Aquinas's role in the development of western philosophy.
        
         | [deleted]
        
         | unmole wrote:
         | I don't follow. Can you elaborate?
        
           | benpbenp wrote:
           | It is a joke based on Aquinas' style of answering questions.
           | He begins with a handful of "objections" that take the
           | opposite position to the one he eventually lands on. To take
           | a random example, "Whether a man is bound to give thanks to
           | every benefactor?" (https://aquinas.cc/la/en/~ST.II-
           | II.Q106.A3)
        
             | gjm11 wrote:
             | My reading of the joke was that it wasn't about Aquinas's
             | question/answers/objections/resolution style, but just
             | suggesting that Aquinas got a lot of things wrong but got
             | them wrong _very clearly_ , making him a useful person to
             | argue against in order to develop better answers to his
             | questions.
        
               | guerrilla wrote:
               | I read it that way. He was so methodical and echaustive
               | (as well as orthodox in many ways) that he became the
               | perfect starting point to rebel against.
        
             | throw0101a wrote:
             | > _It is a joke based on Aquinas ' style of answering
             | questions._
             | 
             | This wasn't particular to Aquinas, but fairly common among
             | Scholastics:
             | 
             | * https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/41999/what-
             | is-th...
             | 
             | In some ways you're trying to steel man (as opposed to
             | straw man) the opposing arguments. It was a reflection of
             | the oral debating style used in universities at the time.
        
               | guerrilla wrote:
               | Strange that that answer doesn't include the fact that
               | they were heavily influenced by Aristotle (who had just
               | been rediscovered by Europeans) who explicitely
               | recommended doing this.
        
           | handrous wrote:
           | He wrote _a lot_ about a variety of Big Topics in philosophy
           | and theology, often getting things quite wrong, sometimes
           | subtly, sometimes... less subtly. This has prompted much
           | commentary, refutation, and further development toward better
           | arguments.
        
             | danielam wrote:
             | Please see my comment to trasz.
        
               | handrous wrote:
               | Fair enough, I admit my take is an (the indefinite
               | article, to be clear) orthodox, but meme-y and not
               | especially "deep" one.
        
           | 52-6F-62 wrote:
           | Not OP, but from what I understand Aquinas seems to have had
           | a fixed lens he allowed himself to view the world through and
           | seemingly based the fundamentals of his philosophy on. Not
           | even Aristotle could be properly studied without a Christian
           | lens.
           | 
           | He's generally viewed as a net positive since Christiandom
           | ruled the western world and Aquinas reconciled some
           | Aristotelian and Neoplatonic views with the Catholic Church
           | ("Nothing comes from nothing", "cause and effect", etc) But
           | to Aquinas, those Neoplatonists from whom he derived his
           | cosmology and philosophy were nothing better than pagans
           | lining up to be burned in the good lord's holy fires--even
           | though they figured the same thing about the way things
           | appear to work.
        
             | alentist wrote:
             | > a fixed lens he allowed himself to view the world through
             | 
             | That's true of any philosopher.
             | 
             | > to Aquinas, those Neoplatonists from whom he derived his
             | cosmology and philosophy were nothing better than pagans
             | 
             | Ahistorical nonsense.
             | 
             | https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com//mobile/view/
             | 1...
             | 
             | https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvqsf13g
        
               | danielam wrote:
               | Specifically, I'd add that Aquinas had enormous regard
               | for Aristotle and the pagan philosophers, to the point
               | that he referred to Aristotle with the honorific "the
               | Philosopher".
        
               | mdiesel wrote:
               | The Name of the Rose is a great read, that to me
               | summarises the relationship nicely.
        
               | 52-6F-62 wrote:
               | I'd be wary of misinterpreting endearment as honorific.
               | 
               | Morally, he couldn't exalt a Pagan. He only brought
               | himself to say that they essentially "weren't all bad",
               | and beautifully illustrated. He was right, of course,
               | about them--but ultimately he looked down upon them from
               | a moral and ethical standpoint.
        
               | wolverine876 wrote:
               | The Medieval church's philosophy was called Neoplatonism,
               | after Plato, a 'pagan'. IIRC, they would have loved to
               | have Aristotle's works too, and they were finally
               | discovered in the time of Aquinas.
        
               | 52-6F-62 wrote:
               | Common cosmological and philosophical threads run through
               | all religions, but some tenets of Neoplatonism and
               | related Hermetic mystical foundations made their way into
               | Catholicism through two means: early Christian cults and
               | sects before an organized central church ruled on all
               | tenets, and later through Augustine and Aquinas saying
               | "these guys aren't so bad, they figured out why we know
               | there's a god at all and now we can prove it".
               | 
               | Neoplatonism well predates the church. It's beautiful,
               | though.
        
               | 52-6F-62 wrote:
               | It's a fundamental tenet of the Catholic belief system.
               | If you're not Catholic christian, then you're Pagan, and
               | it follows if you're not adhering to Catholic
               | Christianity then you are doomed.
               | 
               | Not Christianity in all its forms, sure, but Catholicism
               | absolutely.
               | 
               | Just because Aquinas questioned if "pagans" could be
               | virtuous in spite of their beliefs, does not mean he
               | didn't believe they were destined for exclusion from God.
               | He might have written more positively about them than his
               | counterparts and colleagues in the church, but he was
               | looking down his nose at them.
               | 
               | I don't consider adherents to a dogma reaching out in
               | "charity" to be a relationship of equitable footing. It
               | reminds me of that old English nonsense of "noble
               | savages". Just because they called them "noble"...
               | 
               |  _edit:
               | 
               | Happy to remove my personal opinions.
               | 
               | I'm not making up these perspectives; this is dogma
               | according to the Catholic Encyclopedia:
               | https://www.catholic.com/encyclopedia/paganism. And it's
               | literally in the abstract of the first paper linked to.
               | 
               | Aquinas, as a function of his adherence to that dogma,
               | presumed all Pagans to be doomed as a function of their
               | not adhering to the same dogma. He considered them
               | possibly capable of virtue, but morally inferior._
        
               | slumdev wrote:
               | > If you're not Catholic christian, then you're Pagan
               | 
               | Pagan is only one category of unbeliever. There are also:
               | 
               | 1. Heretics (bad Catholics and all Protestants)
               | 
               | 2. Schismatics (the Eastern Orthodox and splinter groups)
               | 
               | 3. Infidels (Muslims and anyone else who acknowledges the
               | Abrahamic God but denies Christ)
               | 
               | 4. Jews (for having been God's chosen people and having
               | denied the Messiah), see #3
               | 
               | 5. Heathens ("spiritual but not religious")
               | 
               | 6. Atheists
               | 
               | > if you're not adhering to Catholic Christianity then
               | you are doomed
               | 
               | Strive to enter by the narrow gate.
        
               | 52-6F-62 wrote:
               | I'm just pulling the usage from the Catholic Encylopedia,
               | via Catholic Answers so that I can't be accused of
               | misconstruing anything:
               | https://www.catholic.com/encyclopedia/paganism
        
               | slumdev wrote:
               | That's a reasonable source. My list was what I could
               | recall from the Baltimore Catechism. I went to find a
               | link, and it looks like I missed a few.
               | 
               | Q 1170: http://www.baltimore-catechism.com/lesson30.htm
        
               | iammisc wrote:
               | I think you're hierarchy is fine, but keep in mind the
               | Baltimore catechism is not an 'official' church document
               | issued by Rome.
               | 
               | As something issued by all bishops in the USA, it did at
               | one time have official status in dioceses within the
               | United States.
               | 
               | But it's not a place to cite 'official' Catholic
               | teaching, because it's not a universal Church document
               | the way a church council, a vatican statement, or the
               | writings of one of the church doctors would be.
               | 
               | It's best to cite a source that the Baltimore Catechism
               | would have used as the authoritative source.
        
               | wolverine876 wrote:
               | The source you cited below doesn't mention other
               | religions by name, nor does it have a special category
               | for one of them.
        
               | dang wrote:
               | Please don't take HN threads on generic ideological
               | tangents [1], and certainly not on religious flamewar
               | tangents, which this is.
               | 
               | There are plenty of interesting things to discuss about
               | Aquinas in his historical context. The last thing we need
               | is to replace that with generic (and therefore tedious,
               | and eventually nasty) arguments about "dogma" and (god
               | help us) "the errors of modern Christianity".
               | 
               | [1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=t
               | rue&sor...
        
               | iammisc wrote:
               | I understand why he comes across that way, but as a
               | Catholic myself, he's correct in his assertion that the
               | church still holds the doctrine 'extra Ecclesiam nulla
               | salus' (Outside the church there is no salvation) and
               | that most Catholics of Aquinas's time would have believed
               | an even strong version. This is not flame-baiting. It's a
               | statement of Catholic doctrine that's been written on
               | extensively for many years. IMO, he's just providing a
               | factual background for Aquinas' worldview that anyone --
               | Catholic or otherwise -- can use to interpret his
               | philosophy however they want.
               | 
               | I don't think this is flamebaiting personally, but maybe
               | I have thick skin.
               | 
               | The only thing he's 'wrong' about is that not every non-
               | Catholic is considered a pagan. Some are schismatics or
               | heretics. Again, that's not my opinion or his/her
               | opinion. That's just a statement of what the church
               | publicly proclaims to believe about non-catholics.
        
               | dang wrote:
               | There's no reason why a correct statement can't be
               | flamebait. Frequently they are.
               | 
               | The problem here isn't that the GP posted opinion rather
               | than fact, or something like that; it's that the comment
               | was a dramatic swerve into generic flamewar territory.
               | More explanation if it helps: https://hn.algolia.com/?dat
               | eRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu....
        
               | 52-6F-62 wrote:
               | Thank you. You read me correctly. To be fair to dang, my
               | original comment had my personal opinion on dogma laced
               | into it. I removed that portion.
               | 
               | I hadn't felt I was launching into any arguments even
               | with my opinion laced in, but it may also be that I don't
               | tend to be patient with my wording. So what seems only
               | matter-of-fact to me may come across more cold-hearted to
               | others than I intended.
               | 
               | Either way, I appreciate your insightful additions.
               | You'll probably be more helpful on this subject already
               | than I've been.
        
               | 52-6F-62 wrote:
               | Dang, nothing I said was to instigate a flame war about
               | religion. I think my comment history should speak for
               | itself, there.
               | 
               | I was defending my statement on Aquinas, and so I had to
               | draw out the conclusion. I think that's fair.
               | 
               | I never directed any remark at anyone's beliefs, so I
               | think this is all heavy-handed, but just the same I
               | removed the offending opinions and tuned my comment to
               | suit HN's mode.
        
               | dang wrote:
               | I believe you about your intention, but we have to go by
               | effects, not intentions [1]. What you posted was
               | certainly a swerve into generic religious territory and
               | the sort of thing that, based on experience, is likely to
               | turn into a religious flamewar.
               | 
               | The more important point here is that it's best to avoid
               | generic tangents [2], especially on classic flamewar
               | topics.
               | 
               | [1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=t
               | rue&sor...
               | 
               | [2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=t
               | rue&sor...
        
             | xamuel wrote:
             | >Aquinas reconciled some Aristotelian and Neoplatonic views
             | with the Catholic Church
             | 
             | I wonder if you might be mistaking Aquinas for Augustine?
             | Augustine introduced huge amounts of Neoplatonism into
             | Christianity very early---little more than a century after
             | the original Neoplatonist, Plotinus himself. It's also
             | worth noting that Plotinus was a disciple of the mysterious
             | Ammonius Saccas, one of whose other disciples was none
             | other than Origen, a very influential early Christian
             | writer (albeit later considered a heretic).
        
               | wolverine876 wrote:
               | My understanding, which was never great and is
               | imperfectly recalled:
               | 
               | Augustine was the foundation of Neoplatonism in the
               | Medieval church, which was it's guiding philosophy (to
               | some great extent) for centuries.
               | 
               | The works of Aristotle were lost to them. They knew of
               | Aristotle but didn't have his writings. Around the time
               | of Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle's works were rediscovered,
               | having been preserved in the Muslim world. Aquinas' great
               | task was reconciling them with the existing church.
        
               | xamuel wrote:
               | Augustine does explicitly reference Aristotle's
               | "Categories" in his Confessions, I believe. Not sure what
               | other material of Aristotle's was available to Augustine,
               | I'm not a scholar on the subject. Of course, even to us
               | today, many of Aristotle's works are STILL lost, so...
        
           | trasz wrote:
           | To put it bluntly: this...
           | 
           | "So it is that sacred doctrine is a science because it
           | proceeds from principles established by the light of a higher
           | science, namely, the science of God and the blessed"
           | 
           | ... is, technically, BS. And pretty much all of Aquinas
           | follows this pattern. Which was very highly regarded back
           | then, but now we know better.
        
             | danielam wrote:
             | > ... is, technically, BS. And pretty much all of Aquinas
             | follows this pattern. Which was very highly regarded back
             | then, but now we know better.
             | 
             | You seem confident in that assertion. Care to elaborate,
             | preferably with examples/arguments?
             | 
             | N.b., it's not the first time I've heard such a claim so
             | boldly stated. Typically, dismissive attitudes toward
             | Thomas are rooted in widespread misunderstanding about what
             | he actually argued and on what basis. Feser, for example,
             | recalls how he had held a caricaturish view of some of the
             | most famous arguments Thomas put forth because those
             | caricatures are what are often taught to students of
             | philosophy nowadays, largely because the caricatures have
             | become part of academic received wisdom, not necessarily
             | because of some ill intent.
             | 
             | None of this is to say that Thomas is infallible, just that
             | he is a great teacher. Arguments that rely on the science
             | of his day, for example, may require revision, but his
             | philosophical synthesis, for example, is, at the VERY
             | least, very defensible.
        
               | slumdev wrote:
               | The clarity of St. Thomas is incomprehensible to anyone
               | raised in postmodernism and not educated in philosophy.
        
               | huetius wrote:
               | I'm not sure that's true. There is a certain strand in
               | postmodernist/critical thought that, by consistently
               | seeking to unmask power, recovers the perennial,
               | "religious" questions. Some examples might include
               | Horkheimer's later works, Simone Weil, or Habermas, who
               | famously had an encounter with Pope Benedict XVI (then,
               | Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger) that caused him to reevaluate
               | a lot of his views towards religious thought. I think
               | Aquinas is also pretty accessible to the dedicated
               | novice. Maybe you mean positivist instead of
               | postmodernist? In that case, yeah, I'd agree.
        
               | slumdev wrote:
               | Postmodernist suppositions regarding power and ideology
               | include an implicit assumption that absolute truth
               | doesn't exist.
               | 
               | That used to be called relativism.
               | 
               | It's ad hominem at scale -- an attack on the institutions
               | that produced centuries of good work rather than an
               | honest confrontation of the work itself.
        
               | dang wrote:
               | Please don't take HN threads into generic ideological
               | tangents. The more generic they get, the more repetitive
               | and tedious they are, and then they inevitably turn
               | nasty.
               | 
               | https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&
               | sor...
               | 
               | https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&
               | sor...
               | 
               | https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
        
             | dang wrote:
             | " _Please don 't post shallow dismissals, especially of
             | other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us
             | something._"
             | 
             | https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
        
             | mensetmanusman wrote:
             | Before immediately jumping to BS, it is sometimes
             | illuminating to consider whether the words today may have
             | changed meaning after centuries :)
        
             | slumdev wrote:
             | > Which was very highly regarded back then, but now we know
             | better.
             | 
             | Aquinas is still highly regarded. Virtually every
             | philosophy department in the Western world still teaches
             | him.
        
               | Cybotron5000 wrote:
               | Bertrand Russell on Thomas Aquinas: "There is little of
               | the true philosophic spirit in Aquinas. He does not, like
               | the Platonic Socrates, set out to follow wherever the
               | argument may lead. He is not engaged in an enquiry, the
               | result of which it is impossible to know in advance.
               | Before he begins to philosophize, he already knows the
               | truth; it is declared in the Catholic faith. If he can
               | find apparently rational arguments for some parts of the
               | faith, so much the better; if he cannot, he need only
               | fall back on revelation. The finding of arguments for a
               | conclusion given in advance is not philosophy, but
               | special pleading." [History of Western Philosophy p. 453]
        
               | cbfrench wrote:
               | Of course, Anthony Kenny countered Russell's assertion by
               | humorously noting, " It is extraordinary that that
               | accusation should be made by Russell, who in the book
               | _Principia Mathematica_ takes hundreds of pages to prove
               | that two and two make four, which is something he had
               | believed all his life" ( _Aquinas on Mind_ , 11).
               | 
               | Russell also misunderstands much of Thomas's project in
               | this quotation. To my knowledge, Thomas never claimed to
               | be doing philosophy (at least not according to the modern
               | understanding of it); most of his work is theology that
               | happens to have philosophical implications. But as Thomas
               | notes in the opening articles of the _Summa Theologica_ ,
               | theology as a _scientia_ takes divine revelation as its
               | first principles and makes rational deductions on the
               | basis of that deposit of revelation. Importantly,
               | however, it pursues its ends using particularly
               | theological methods and criteria, some of which overlap
               | with philosophical methods and criteria, while others do
               | not.
               | 
               | But the starting point of theology is Anselm's "Credo ut
               | intelligam," not Descartes's Cogito. To imagine that
               | theology is just some poorly-conducted version of
               | philosophy is fundamentally a category error.
        
               | Cybotron5000 wrote:
               | Fascinating - thank you for the detailed reply. So I take
               | it that theology, in your opinion at least/that of Thomas
               | Aquinas's, need not make any rational sense whatsoever?
               | It is more an affirmation/fiction that represents the
               | authors' own intuitions about divine matters or perhaps a
               | survey/study of previous hierology/sacred texts? Is an
               | experience of personal revelation therefore necessary to
               | study theology? Must a man believe in god to know
               | anything of him? Augustine defined theologia as: "de
               | divinitate rationem sive sermonem."/"reasoning or
               | discussion concerning the Deity." - but he got the
               | 'rationem' bit wrong? Aristotle must also have been
               | misguided when he defined three aspects of theoretical
               | philosophy: mathematics, physics and theology - or rather
               | he meant metaphysics, as opposed to theology? Aquinas
               | defines it as: '...what is taught by God, teaches of God
               | and leads to God'? This seems much closer to what you are
               | stating? A person must first believe, and then
               | understanding (of the god that you already believe in?)
               | will inevitably flow from that prior belief? Would you
               | agree then with Thomas Paine: "The study of theology, as
               | it stands in Christian churches, is the study of nothing;
               | it is founded on nothing; it rests on no principles; it
               | proceeds by no authorities; it has no data; it can
               | demonstrate nothing; and it admits of no conclusion. Not
               | anything can be studied as a science, without our being
               | in possession of the principles upon which it is founded;
               | and as this is the case with Christian theology, it is
               | therefore the study of nothing." ...or Protagoras:
               | "Concerning the gods I cannot know either that they exist
               | or that they do not exist, or what form they might have,
               | for there is much to prevent one's knowing: the obscurity
               | of the subject and the shortness of man's life."
               | ...understand that might be a bit heavy duty/tough ask
               | for a HN comment :) ...but am genuinely interested if you
               | can point me to further sources to read/help me
               | understand Aquinas'/your ideas better...
        
       | dr_dshiv wrote:
       | https://alpheios.net/
       | 
       | Is an open source project for making alignments like this. Great
       | for learning and close inspection.
        
       | slaymaker1907 wrote:
       | This reminds be of the "No Fear" series of classics which really
       | helped me get into Shakespeare. What I usually do with stuff like
       | this is read the original, read the translated/simplified
       | version, and then finally read the original text again. I find
       | that this method really helps both reinforce the meaning as well
       | as appreciate the beauty of the original language.
        
       | bombcar wrote:
       | This is a working system used to produce
       | https://aquinasinstitute.org/operaomnia/ - you can sometimes see
       | changes made in real-time if you're observant.
        
       | svat wrote:
       | What are some other websites/resources like this? That is, ones
       | that make a text easier to read, either with parallel translation
       | or word lookup etc?
       | 
       | Listing the ones I know (in no particular order, just a list I
       | had collected a while ago):
       | 
       | - Physical (print) books: Loeb Classical Library (Greek and
       | Latin) https://www.loebclassics.com/, Clay Sanskrit Library
       | (Sanskrit)
       | http://www.claysanskritlibrary.org/volumes_current.php, Murty
       | Classical Library of India (various languages)
       | https://murtylibrary.com/volumes.php.
       | 
       | - Perseus Hopper (Greek and Latin),
       | https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/
       | 
       | - Chinese Text Project (https://ctext.org/)
       | 
       | - https://nodictionaries.com/ (Latin)
       | 
       | - http://pseudw.herokuapp.com/iliad/books/1?start=500&end=589&...
       | = https://github.com/nkallen/pseudw/ (Greek: The Iliad)
       | 
       | - http://alpheios.net/ (Latin, Greek)
       | 
       | - quran.com / legacy.quran.com / corpus.quran.com (The Quran:
       | Arabic)
       | 
       | - Dickinson College Commentaries (Latin) e.g.
       | https://dcc.dickinson.edu/tacitus-agricola/1
       | 
       | - "e-readers" under http://sanskrit.uohyd.ac.in/scl/ (Sanskrit)
       | 
       | - Gita Supersite (Sanskrit) e.g.
       | https://www.gitasupersite.iitk.ac.in/srimad?language=dv&fiel...
       | 
       | - https://greenmesg.org/stotras/lakshmi/sri_suktam.php etc
       | (Sanskrit)
       | 
       | - No Fear Shakespeare (https://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/)
       | 
       | - https://github.com/tasuki/side-by-side e.g.
       | https://enchiridion.tasuki.org https://ttc.tasuki.org/
       | 
       | - This one (https://aquinas.cc/la/en/~ST.I.Pr.3)
       | 
       | Of these, http://alpheios.net/ and
       | https://github.com/tasuki/side-by-side are ones that allow you to
       | build your own webpages / present your own texts. Are there more?
        
       | AdmiralAsshat wrote:
       | Excellent. My Latin is crap these days, and if I had to read the
       | original it would take an hour to get through a page with a
       | dictionary open, but it's great to have the Latin right there if
       | something in the English raises an eyebrow.
        
         | hodgesrm wrote:
         | This translation looks good from a quick scan. Reasonably
         | faithful to the text of Aquinas without being unduly contorted
         | to track the Latin structure. A nice effort!
        
         | nerdponx wrote:
         | It would be absolutely incredible to have a resource like The
         | Latin Library (https://thelatinlibrary.com) with parallel
         | translations.
        
           | thwave wrote:
           | Perseus Digital Library has a quite a few, in Greek as well. 
           | http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/collection?collection=Pe.
           | .. https://scaife.perseus.org/library/
        
           | Finnucane wrote:
           | Loebclassics.com, but requires subscription.
        
             | wrycoder wrote:
             | 170USD first year then 70 per year.
        
               | tomcam wrote:
               | It's time to go into the Latin business
        
               | jcadam wrote:
               | veritas
        
               | PTOB wrote:
               | Quid est veritas?
        
       | fidesomnes wrote:
       | Gratias tibi ago. Falsa doctrina oportet projecticius.
        
       | arkj wrote:
       | I found this curation of lectures
       | https://aquinas101.thomisticinstitute.org/ (they are on apple
       | podcast as well) very helpful to understand the thought of
       | Aquinas. It's not like a typical course but collection of talks
       | on aspects of Thomistic philosophy.
        
       | TheFreim wrote:
       | This is something I've wanted for so long! Amazing! Most sites
       | hosting works such as those of St. Thomas Aquinas are often
       | lacking, this looks great!
        
         | hodgesrm wrote:
         | Have you run across anything similar for Augustine? He is one
         | of my favorite authors.
        
       | mrkramer wrote:
       | Wonderful!
        
       | dantondwa wrote:
       | I wish this existed for every philosopher. This is marvelous and
       | an example of what I love about the Internet!
        
       | agomez314 wrote:
       | This is incredible! Great work!
        
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