Author: James B. NugentPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 67
Book Description
The Fundamental Theistic Argument in the Metaphysical Doctrine of Saint Thomas Aquinas
The Fundamental Theistic Argument in the Metaphysical Doctrine of Saint Thomas Aquinas ; an Abstract
Author: James B. NugentThe Fundamental Theistic Argument in the Metaphysical Doctrine of St. Thomas Aquinas
Author: James B. NugentPublisher:
ISBN: 9781258048457
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
The Catholic University Of America, Philosophical Studies, No. 192, Abstract No. 42.
The Fundamental Theistic Argument in the Metaphysical Doctrine of Saint Thomas Aquinas. An Abstract of a Dissertation, Etc
Author: James B. NUGENTThe Fundamental Theistic Argument in the Metaphysical Doctrine of Saint Thomas Aquinas
Author: James B NugentThe Metaphysics of Theism
Author: Norman KretzmannPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019924653X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
The Metaphysics of Theism is the definitive study of the natural theology of Thomas Aquinas, the greatest of medieval philosophers, written by one of the world's most eminent scholars of medieval thought. Natural theology is the investigation by analysis and rational argument of fundamental questions about reality, considered in relation to God. Professor Kretzmann shows the continuing value of Aquinas's doctrines to the philosophical enterprise today; he argues that natural theology offers the only route by which philosophers can, as philosophers, approach theological propositions, and that the one presented in this book is the best available natural theology.
The Fundamental Therstic Argument in the Metaphysical Doctrine of Saint Thomas Aquinas
Author: James B. NugentClassical Theism
Author: Jonathan FuquaPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000836932
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
This volume provides a contemporary account of classical theism. It features 17 original essays from leading scholars that advance the discussion of classical theism in new and interesting directions. It’s safe to say that classical theism—the view that God is simple, omniscient, and the greatest possible being—is no longer the assumed view in analytic philosophy of religion. It is often dismissed as being rooted in outdated metaphysical systems of the sort advanced by ancient and medieval philosophers. The main purpose of this volume is twofold: to provide a contemporary account of what classical theism is and to advance the scholarly discussion about classical theism. In Section I, the contributors offer a clear and cutting-edge account of the nature and existence of the God and the historical and theological foundations of classical theism. Section II contains chapters on a variety of topics, such as whether classical theism’s doctrine of simplicity needs revision, whether simplicity is compatible with the Christian doctrine of the Incarnation, and whether the hypothesis of a multiplicity of divine ideas is consistent with divine simplicity, among others. Classical Theism will appeal to scholars and advanced students in the philosophy of religion who are interested in the nature of God. Chapters 2 and 6 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Introduction to the Philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas, Volume 4
Author: H. D. GardeilPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1556359071
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
Metaphysics now joins the series of translations of Father Gardeil's Initiation a la Philosophie de S. Thomas d'Aquin. After an Introduction which discusses the general notion of metaphysics as a science, the relation of metaphysics to the critical analysis of knowledge and metaphysics as developed by Aristotle and St. Thomas, the author turns to the questions of First Philosophy which have concerned philosophers from Parmenides to Sartre and Heidegger. In seven chapters he considers being in itself and as it is known, the transcendental, the categories of being, act and potency, essence and existence and causality. As in the other volumes of this series, the author includes a generous selection of texts from the works of St. Thomas carefully correlated with the various chapters of the work itself. These are not mere snippets, but substantial quotations drawn from the Commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics, De ente et existentia, the Disputed Questions and the two Summas. The reader has the words of Aquinas in the best modern English versions before him. Here is St. Thomas for the thinker--unfiltered. A most valuable addition in this fourth volume is the technical vocabulary of Thomistic and scholastic terms, covering all four volumes of the Initiation. The beginner in metaphysics will find this book most valuable, for it presents clearly the basic problematics and the Thomistic solution of them. For the more profound student here is a clear, concise (but not cursory) review of the science. Thomistic metaphysics, in Father Gardeil's presentation, is not an historical curiosity but a living and lively discipline. While the aim of the work is to give a synthetic view of St. Thomas' thought, the insights of modern or contemporary philosophers is not neglected. The translator's notes offer clarification and add bibliographical information on works published since the French edition. Valuable as a class manual, indispensable as supplementary reading, this book can serve the needs of a strictly philosophical course or one designed as a preparation for theology.
Metaphysical Themes in Thomas Aquinas
Author: John F. WippelPublisher: CUA Press
ISBN: 0813208394
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Discusses the generic problem of "Christian philosophy" and considers Aquinas's views on the nature and methodology of metaphysics, and on metaphysics of created and uncreated being.