The Philosophical Approach to God: A New Thomistic Perspective - Couverture souple

Clarke, W. Norris

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0823227197 ISBN 13 : 9780823227198

Editeur : Fordham University Press, 2007

Synopsis

This book is a revised and expanded edition of three lectures delivered by the author at Wake Forest University in 1979. Long out of print, in its new edition it should be a valuable resource for scholars and teachers of the
philosophy of religion.

The first two lectures, after a critique of the incompleteness of St. Thomas Aquinas's famous Five Ways of arguing for the existence of God, explore lesser-known resources of Aquinas's philosophical ascent of the mind to God: the unrestricted dynamism of the human spirit as it reaches toward the fullness of being, and the strictly metaphysical ascent to God from finite to infinite, in the line of Aquinas's later, more Neoplatonically inspired, metaphysics of participation.

The third, and most heavily revised, lecture is a critique of Whitehead's process philosophy, distinguishing Aquinas more sharply and critically from Whitehead than in the first edition.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

W. Norris Clarke, S. J., has for decades taught philosophy at Fordham. Among his books are Explorations in Metaphysics: Being-God-Person, The One and the Many: A Contemporary Thomistic Metaphysics, and The Philosophical Approach to God: A New Thomistic Perspective, 2nd Edition (Fordham).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fordham University Press
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0823227197
• ISBN 13: 9780823227198
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 172
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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