But then what is Rome? I claim that it is God, the Summum Bonum, the source and the destination of all that is. But not merely as a culmination.
Human knowing involves a great deal of analogy, and nowhere else is analogy more essential than knowledge of the Highest Principle and First and Greatest Cause; here the so-called analogia entis. Thus, through knowledge of what is created, we come to know, analogically, the Creator, the Logos. As the metaphysical principle goes, the effect resembles in some way its cause, and this resemblance is analogical. Otherwise, we would need to choose between univocity and equivocity: the first leads the pantheism, the second to deism. In the first, we are God. In the second, God has nothing to do with us. But in the analogia entis, God stands in an analogical relation with us.
lo_zamoyski|1 year ago
Human knowing involves a great deal of analogy, and nowhere else is analogy more essential than knowledge of the Highest Principle and First and Greatest Cause; here the so-called analogia entis. Thus, through knowledge of what is created, we come to know, analogically, the Creator, the Logos. As the metaphysical principle goes, the effect resembles in some way its cause, and this resemblance is analogical. Otherwise, we would need to choose between univocity and equivocity: the first leads the pantheism, the second to deism. In the first, we are God. In the second, God has nothing to do with us. But in the analogia entis, God stands in an analogical relation with us.