Le Sens du Mystère et le Clair-Obscur Intellectuel: Nature et Surnaturel

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English translation: [*The Sense of Mystery: Clarity and Obscurity in the Intellectual Life*](https://isidore.co/calibre/#panel=book_details&book_id=6905) (2018)A very profound quote from Fr. G.-L. (p. 128):> il [saint Thomas] ne craint ni la logique, ni le mystère, et la première le mène au second¹.The footnote is interesting, too:> 1\. Jamais saint Thomas n'aurait admis comme Suarez que le principe de contradiction ne s'applique pas dans la Trinité; il s'y applique selon un mode éminent qui nous reste caché, et nul ne peut montrer que ce mystère implique contradiction.[Suarez held there could be an exception to the law of non-contradiction](https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/q/69435/2014)?(Also, I was thinking today that the word ἀνάλογος would best be translated "higher logic".) As [Feingold](https://isidore.co/calibre/#panel=book_details&book_id=2968) mentions, *Le Sens du Mystère* ddresses the question of the relations of nature and grace, natural desire to see God (which is important for understanding the relation between marriage and virginity; cf. [Bourassa](https://isidore.co/calibre/#panel=book_details&book_id=7194))*esprit de géométrie* et *l’esprit de finesse*Fr. G.-L. (pp. 64-8 // PDF pp. 58-63), discussing the certitude of prudence, quotes [I-II q. 57 a. 5](https://isidore.co/aquinas/summa/FS/FS057.html#FSQ57A5THEP1) ("Whether prudence is a virtue necessary to man?") ad 3: 1. "verum **intellectus speculativi** accipitur per **conformitatem intellectus ad rem** " 2. "Verum autem **intellectus practici** accipitur per **conformitatem ad appetitum rectum**." ← Fr. G.-L.: "esprit de finesse", "connaissance par sympathie"Interestingly, Fr. G.-L., after quoting Pascal's [*Pensées*](http://www.penseesdepascal.fr/XXII/XXII1-approfondir.php), identifies *l’esprit de finesse* with the practical intellect. Is Duhem's *bon sens* intellection "per conformitatem ad appetitum rectum"?cf.: * Réginald Garrigou Lagrange O.P., “[Remarks Concerning the Metaphysical Character of St. Thomas’s Moral Theology, in Particular as It Is Related to Prudence and Conscience](https://isidore.co/misc/Physics%20papers%20and%20books/Zotero/storage/J25HFZW7/O.p%20and%20Minerd%20-%202019%20-%20Remarks%20Concerning%20the%20Metaphysical%20Character%20of%20S.pdf),” trans. Matthew K. Minerd, *Nova et Vetera* 17 (March 13, 2019): 245–70.ch. *Le verbe être* : * p. 80 (PDF p. 75): Mt. 5:77 ("sic sic, non non"); [2 Cor. 1:17-19](https://isidore.co/aquinas/SS2Cor.htm#15) ("Est et Non, sed Est in illo fuit") * p. 99 (PDF p. 94): S. Caterina da Siena's: "I am who am; you are she who is not."