2024-08-29

• Went to rock-climb this morning for the second day in a row.

• Because I leave for Pueblo this morning, I'll not have the opportunity to climb until uMonday.

• So I'll double up on climbingy now et double or triple up on jogging over the weekend.

• On the way to Pueblo, I was forced to stop in Denver because Subaru was overheating.

• Evolution was motivated to help and called to check on me, but the manager did not have room in his schedule.

• Quattrowerks, a German-car shop, did offer to help.
• By process of elimination, technicians concluded that the thermostat is the culprit.

• Started reading Maritain in shop.

• The foreword to Jacques Maritain’s Existence and the Existent is written by John Trapani, Jr.

• Trapani points out that Maritain wrote the book against the existentialism that had become popular after World War II.

• Although the existentialist like Sartre defined the name of the movement by claiming that “existence precedes essence,” he, according to Trapani, emphasized “existence at the expense of essences….”
• Aquinas too holds that existence precedes essence, at least in some sense, but not by deemphasizing essence.
• So Aquinas is a proper Existentialist.
• Section 1 on terminology.
  • Being is an act.
  • Every other action depends on being.
  • Grammatical analysis shows that at least English thwarts the conception of being as an activity.
  • One says easily, “the runner runs.”
  • But with difficulty, “the be-er is.”
  • The intuition of the activity of being is essential to thinking properly about metaphysics.

• Section 2 gives overview of Maritain’s book.

• Garlic & Onion in Pueblo.