Σε ένα αγγλικό κείμενο που μεταφράζω, υπάρχει ένα απόσπασμα από Θωμά Ακινάτη. Στο Βιβλιονέτ δεν βλέπω να υπάρχει μεταφρασμένο, αλλά το Βιβλιονέτ δεν έχει και τα πάντα μέσα. Αν κάποιος έχει ελληνική έκδοση του βιβλίου και μπορεί να βρει την παράθεση, ας μου το πει. Διαφορετικά θα δω πώς μπορώ να κάνω μια αξιόπιστη μετάφραση (το ιδανικό θα ήταν από λατινικά, αλλά δεν ξέρω λατινικά δυστυχώς).
Perhaps not everyone who hears this word "God" understands it to signify something than which nothing greater can be thought, seeing that some have believed God to be a body. Yet, granted that everyone understands that by this word "God" is signified something than which nothing greater can be thought, nevertheless, it does not therefore follow that he understands that what the word signifies exists actually, but only that it exists mentally. Nor can it be argued that it actually exists, unless it be admitted that there actually exists something than which nothing greater can be thought; and this precisely is not admitted by those who hold that God does not exist.
[T. Aquinas, Summa Theologica, Part 1, Q.2, Art.1, 1265-1274 (trsl. by Fathers of the English Dominican Province, Benziger Bros. edition, 1947)]
Perhaps not everyone who hears this word "God" understands it to signify something than which nothing greater can be thought, seeing that some have believed God to be a body. Yet, granted that everyone understands that by this word "God" is signified something than which nothing greater can be thought, nevertheless, it does not therefore follow that he understands that what the word signifies exists actually, but only that it exists mentally. Nor can it be argued that it actually exists, unless it be admitted that there actually exists something than which nothing greater can be thought; and this precisely is not admitted by those who hold that God does not exist.
[T. Aquinas, Summa Theologica, Part 1, Q.2, Art.1, 1265-1274 (trsl. by Fathers of the English Dominican Province, Benziger Bros. edition, 1947)]
