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Guadalupe Flower
No full textUnknown date. Photography collection is owned by the University of Dallas. Requests for usage of copyrighted materials should be submitted to [email protected]
Dedication Plaque 1898
No full textCorner stone for the Cathedral Shore of the Virgin of Guadalupe (formally Most Sacred Heart of Jesus) located in downtown Dallas, Texas. Unknown date. Photography collection is owned by the University of Dallas. Requests for usage of copyrighted materials should be submitted to [email protected]
King Haggar Haggerty Awards Ceremony 2007
No full textPhotograph taken at King Haggar Haggerty Awards Ceremony in 2007. Pictured here is President Francis Lazarus
Gospel
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King Haggar Haggerty Awards Ceremony 2007
No full textPhotograph taken at King Haggar Haggerty Awards Ceremony in 2007. Pictured here is President Francis Lazarus
Feast Costume
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An Art of Rhetorical Listening: Aristotleâ s Treatment of Audience in the Rhetoric
No full textFor Aristotle, the art of rhetoricâ an ability to see what is persuasive in any given caseâ is a matter both of speaking and of listening, of persuading and of judging persuasive speeches. Rhetorical artists may exercise their theoretical powers for the sake of productive activity, discovering persuasive arguments to deploy in the courtroom and the assembly, or they may use those same powers to judge the validity or political utility of other speakersâ arguments, â seeingâ the difference between the persuasive and the â apparently persuasive.â This conception of rhetorical artistry is consistent with Aristotleâ s teaching about arts generally. In the Physics and the Metaphysics, Aristotle distinguishes between technÄ , which is a rational and theoretical capacity, and poiÄ sis, which is a productive activity. In the Politics, he advises free people to study the arts, not so that they may please audiences or clients with their artifacts (which is a vulgar pursuit), but so that they may become better judges of othersâ works (a liberal one). Consistent with this conception of receptive and evaluative artistry, the Rhetoric analyzes topics, proofs, enthymeme, and metaphor from both the speaker and the audienceâ s perspectives, showing how one may be rhetorically artistic both as a speaker and as a judge. The dialectical arrangement of the Rhetoric trains Aristotleâ s students and readers in this art of rhetorical listening, teaching them to see not only the available â meansâ of persuasion, but also persuasionâ s material, formal, and final causes
The Relation Between Physics and Mathematics in Thomas Aquinas's Division and Methods of the Sciences
No full textThis thesis addresses the question â How can mathematics provide knowledge of physical objects?â which was provoked by Thomas Aquinasâ s inclusion of â intermediateâ (i.e., physicomathematical) sciences in his Division and Methods of the Sciences. In examining Aquinasâ s process of division, I paid special attention to the way he distinguishes the sciences according to the formal ratio of their objects, an important development upon Boethiusâ s framework. This led me to discuss the modes of abstraction proper to each science and, in turn, how their distinct epistemic foundations seem to prevent one science from being meaningfully applied to the study of another. However, in the case of physics, the accident quantity is implicitly included in the definition of its objects, suggesting that mathematics can, in some way, inform their study (even though mathematical propositions themselves are neither true nor false from the standpoint of extramental reality). I concluded that the knowledge obtained through physico-mathematical sciences is conditional in an ontological sense, for the mathematical systems that these sciences employ cannot be more than hypothetical depictions of observed phenomena. Nevertheless, insofar as the conclusions of a given mathematical model are corroborated by physical data, the hypothesis of the model is validated. In fact, mathematicsâ indifference to the material world is of remarkable value to the physicist. As an ordered system of the imagination, mathematics enables the physicist to reinterpret the material world according to its quantitative aspects in an idealized setting. In this way, mathematics can become an indispensable tool in the physicistâ s quest to locate and abstract the universal natures of physical bodies