A Contemporary Introduction to Thomistic Metaphysics

A Contemporary Introduction to Thomistic Metaphysics
Title A Contemporary Introduction to Thomistic Metaphysics PDF eBook
Author Michael Gorman
Publisher CUA Press
Pages 263
Release 2024
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 0813237335

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A Contemporary Introduction to Metaphysics provides the reader with an introductory presentation of key themes in Thomistic metaphysics. There are many such books, but this one is, to use a phrase Michael Gorman has adopted, "analytic-facing," i.e., it presents things in dialogue with analytic philosophy. Sometimes that means disagreeing with analytic proposals (for example, possible worlds), and sometimes it means agreeing with them (for instance, making ample use of Ryle's notion of "systematically misleading expressions"). What's more, it (gently) takes a somewhat deflationary attitude towards many things metaphysicians like to talk about, such as accidents, universals, and the like. By "deflationary" Gorman means that such items are taken seriously, but their ontological status is taken down a notch: features, universals, possible worlds, and other such things are understood in terms of what substances are. Substances are "basic beings," and other things are what they are only in relation to substances. Of course this is Aristotle 101, but metaphysicians, Aristotelians included, often slip into treating non-substances as mini-substances, and Gorman pushes back against this throughout. A Contemporary Introduction to Thomistic Metaphysics begins by explaining what philosophy is, what metaphysics is, and how these relate to other kinds of thinking. It then moves through a series of topics, ending with a brief look at applications of metaphysical thinking in theology.

The One and the Many

The One and the Many
Title The One and the Many PDF eBook
Author W. Norris Clarke S.J.
Publisher University of Notre Dame Pess
Pages 437
Release 2015-11-30
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 0268077045

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When it is taught today, metaphysics is often presented as a fragmented view of philosophy that ignores the fundamental issues of its classical precedents. Eschewing these postmodern approaches, W. Norris Clarke finds an integrated vision of reality in the wisdom of Aquinas and here offers a contemporary version of systematic metaphysics in the Thomistic tradition. The One and the Many presents metaphysics as an integrated whole which draws on Aquinas' themes, structure, and insight without attempting to summarize his work. Although its primary inspiration is the philosophy of St. Thomas himself, it also takes into account significant contributions not only of later philosophers but also of those developments in modern science that have philosophical bearing, from the Big Bang to evolution.

Thomistic Metaphysics

Thomistic Metaphysics
Title Thomistic Metaphysics PDF eBook
Author Charles Aloysius Hart
Publisher
Pages 413
Release 1959
Genre Metaphysics
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Mind, Metaphysics, and Value in the Thomistic and Analytical Traditions

Mind, Metaphysics, and Value in the Thomistic and Analytical Traditions
Title Mind, Metaphysics, and Value in the Thomistic and Analytical Traditions PDF eBook
Author John Haldane
Publisher
Pages 248
Release 2002
Genre Philosophy
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Contemporary western philosophy divides into three broad traditions: the analytical, the continental, and the historical. In the latter half of the twentieth century, analytical philosophy was dominant in the English-speaking world and tended to ignore the other two traditions. Now, however, analytical philosophy is less isolationist. It has come to appreciate the vitality of historical philosophy. Given their commonality of interests and shared appreciation of the values of conceptual clarity and argumentative rigour, it is particularly appropriate that there should be engagement between the main English-language tradition and the philosophy of Aquinas and, more broadly, of Thomism. The essays in this collection range widely across the fields of metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind and action, and theory of value with most linking analytical and Aristotelian-Thomistic ideas and some focusing on Aquinas in particular. This collection is distinctive in content and unusual in North American publishing in the areas of medieval philosophy, scholasticism, and Thomism in that the majority of the contributors are based in Europe--many at medieval universities in which scholasticism had a historical presence, and in some cases a prominent and distinguished one. Mind, Metaphysics, and Value brings together the interests, knowledge, and expertise of a wide range of scholars to form a broad and exciting intellectual community.

Aquinas on the Metaphysics of the Hypostatic Union

Aquinas on the Metaphysics of the Hypostatic Union
Title Aquinas on the Metaphysics of the Hypostatic Union PDF eBook
Author Michael Gorman
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 191
Release 2017-06-22
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 1107155320

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This book is an insightful exploration of Aquinas's views on how Christ could be both divine and human but still only be one person.

Being and Some Philosophers

Being and Some Philosophers
Title Being and Some Philosophers PDF eBook
Author Étienne Gilson
Publisher PIMS
Pages 252
Release 1952
Genre History
ISBN 9780888444158

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The study of being was one of the main preoccupations of Etienne Gilson's scholarly and intellectual life. Being and Some Philosophers is at once a testament to the persistence of those concerns and an important landmark in the history of the question of being. The book charts the ways in which being is translated across history, from unity in Plato and substance in Aristotle to essence in Avicenna and the act of existence in Aquinas. It examines the vicissitudes of essence and existence in Suarez and Christian Wolff, in Hegel and Kierkegaard, in order to uncover the metaphysical and existential foundations of modern thought. And yet Being and Some Philosophers remains not so much an historical investigation (although it could only have been written by a scholar steeped in the history of philosophy) but, in the words of its author, "a philosophical book, and a dogmatically philosophical one at that." Its passionate vigour has proven, over many years, at once fresh and provocative. Indeed, the appendix to this revised edition contains critiques of the book by two Thomists as well as Gilson's replies to their objections.

Man's Knowledge of Reality

Man's Knowledge of Reality
Title Man's Knowledge of Reality PDF eBook
Author Frederick D. Wilhelmsen
Publisher
Pages 236
Release 1956
Genre Knowledge, Theory of
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