Being and Knowing: Reflections of a Thomist

ISBN-13: 9781138519411 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 226 str.

Frederick D. Wilhelmsen

Opis

Being and Knowing, rooted in the philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas, rests on two basic assertions: first, metaphysics is the science of being in its first and ultimate act, existence; second, that existence is known not through observing objects, but in affirming through judgments that these objects are subjects of existence

Spis treści

Acknowledgements

Introduction to the Transaction Edition,
by William Marshner

Introduction

I Metaphysics as Creativity
II The Triplex Via and the Transcendence of Esse
III The Concept of Existence and the Structure of Judgment: A Thomistic Paradox
IV The Priority of Judgment over Question: Reflections on Transcendental Thomism
V Existence and Esse
VI Creation as a Relation in St. Thomas Aquinas
VII Reasoning and Computers
VIII The "I" and Aquinas
IX Modern Man's Myth of Self-Identity
X Subject Analysis in the Philosophy of Communications
XI A Meditation on the Dignity of the Human Person Prompted by Saint Thomas Aquinas
XII The Christian Understanding of Being: A Thomistic Reading

Index

O autorze

Frederick D. Wilhelmsen