This is the ninth in a series of posts on my own philosophical journey; the first post is here.

So, to recap:

First, modern philosophy struck me as nuts.

Then, rather later, Aristotelian and Thomist philosophy struck me as sane.

And then I discovered that although Aristotle and Thomas are often said to be have been proven wrong by Science! (Cue dramatic music) and by Modern Thought! (Cue more dramatic music), they were never really proven wrong; they were simply abandoned as unfashionable or, possibly, inconvenient.

In short, Thomist philosophy is a genuine live option. And so, for the past several years, I’ve been exploring it. I’ll have more to say about that in the coming weeks; there are a number of areas I find interesting, and a number of things I want to talk about. But this series has now accomplished what I wanted to accomplish, which is to point out that studying Thomist philosophy is more than just an academic exercise in the history of philosophy; it’s a return to philosophical sanity.