Neo-Thomism and Classical Thought - Couverture souple

Mitchell, Owen

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798215688304

Editeur : Draft2Digital, 2026

Synopsis

The modern world is marked by a peculiar paradox. Never has humanity possessed so much information, and yet never has it seemed so estranged from truth. The proliferation of data has not yielded wisdom; the multiplication of opinions has not produced unity; the expansion of technological power has not brought moral clarity. Instead, the contemporary mind finds itself suspended in a fog of relativism, skepticism, and fragmentation. In such an atmosphere, the very notion of objective reality-of a world ordered by intelligible principles and accessible to reason-appears increasingly foreign. The crisis is not merely cultural or political; it is metaphysical. It concerns the very foundations of how we know, what we know, and whether truth is something the human mind can genuinely grasp.

Against this backdrop, the return to Thomistic realism is not a nostalgic gesture but a necessary recovery of intellectual sanity. Thomism, rooted in the synthesis achieved by St. Thomas Aquinas, stands as one of the most luminous achievements of the Catholic tradition. It is not simply a school of thought among others, nor a historical curiosity confined to medieval disputations. It is a perennial philosophy, grounded in the conviction that reality is intelligible, that truth is the conformity of the mind to what is, and that the human person is ordered toward the contemplation of being. Thomism offers a metaphysical architecture capable of supporting theology, ethics, politics, and culture. It provides a coherent vision of the world in which faith and reason are not adversaries but allies, each illuminating the other.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Draft2Digital
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798215688304
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 158
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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