I'm starting a new daily post which I hope my readers may find interesting. For want of a better title, I'm going to call it 'Word of the Day'. It will consist of a daily posting of a word or a term from theology, Canon Law, history, philosophy or related subjects.
I'll give a definition, and then some thoughts of my own on its meaning, history, and use.
The word for today is: PHILOSOPHY.
Literally the love of wisdom. It is the science in which natural reason, apart from divine revelation, seeks to understand all things by a knowledge of their first causes. (Etym. Greek philein, to love + sophia, wisdom: philosophus.)
For the Traditional Catholic, this means, of course, the philosophy of the Angelic Doctor, the Scholastic philosophy of St Thomas Aquinas known as 'Thomism'. This was enjoined on the Church by His Holiness Pope Leo XIII in his Encyclical, Æterni Patris, On the Restoration of Christian Philosophy in Catholic Schools in the Spirit of the Angelic Doctor, St. Thomas Aquinas.
More honoured in the breach than the observance since the Second Vatican Council, it is a major aim of the Traditional movement and those who are fighting to preserve Græco-Roman Catholic Civilisation and Culture to restore Scholastic philosophy to its preeminent place in higher education.
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