{"id":13766,"date":"2025-11-29T08:49:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T15:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/?p=13766"},"modified":"2025-11-29T08:50:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T15:50:04","slug":"does-the-fixity-of-death-extend-to-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/11\/29\/does-the-fixity-of-death-extend-to-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"Does the &#8216;Fixity of Death&#8217; Extend to Thinking?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I cannot repent after death, or make moral progress; can I make intellectual progress post-mortem?\u00a0 Maybe <a href=\"https:\/\/edwardfeser.blogspot.com\/\">Ed Feser<\/a> can answer this question along Thomistic lines, assuming the question has a sense clear enough to answer. Aquinas takes no position on it, at least not in the sections of <em>Summa Contra Gentiles<\/em> where he discusses the <em>will<\/em>&#8216;s fixity after death. See <em>SCG<\/em>, Book Four, sections 92-95.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I cannot repent after death, or make moral progress; can I make intellectual progress post-mortem?\u00a0 Maybe Ed Feser can answer this question along Thomistic lines, assuming the question has a sense clear enough to answer. Aquinas takes no position on it, at least not in the sections of Summa Contra Gentiles where he discusses the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/11\/29\/does-the-fixity-of-death-extend-to-thinking\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Does the &#8216;Fixity of Death&#8217; Extend to Thinking?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aquinas-and-thomism","category-death-and-immortality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13767,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13766\/revisions\/13767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}