Thomist Realism And The Critique Of Knowledge

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Thomist Realism and the Critique of Knowledge

Author : Etienne Gilson
Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 1586176854
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book Thomist Realism and the Critique of Knowledge written by Etienne Gilson and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The highly regarded French philosopher, tienne Gilson, brilliantly plumbs the depths of Thomistic Realism, and false Thomisms as well, in this answer to Kantian modernism. The important work, exquisitely translated by Mark Wauck, brings the essential elements of philosophy into view as a cohesive, readily understandable, and erudite structure, and does so rigorously in the best tradition of St. Thomas. Written as the definitive answer to those philosophers who sought to reconcile critical philosophy with scholastic realism, Gilson saw himself as an historian of philosophy whose main task was one of restoration, and principally the restoration of the wisdom of the Common Doctor of the Church, St. Thomas Aquinas. Gilsons thesis was that realism was incompatible with the critical method and that realism, to the extent that it was reflective and aware of its guiding principles, was its own proper method. He gives a masterful account of the various forces that shaped the neo-scholastic revival, but Gilson is concerned with the past only as it sheds light on the present. In addition to his criticisms, Gilson presents a positive exposition of true Thomist realism, revealing the foundation of realism in the unity of the knowing subject.

Thomist Realism and the Linguistic Turn

Author : John P. O’Callaghan
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 0268158142
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (681 download)

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Download or read book Thomist Realism and the Linguistic Turn written by John P. O’Callaghan and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophers will be richly rewarded by reading John O’Callaghan’s new book, Thomistic Realism and the Linguistic Turn. Based on his broad knowledge of Aristotle and Aquinas, O’Callaghan provides not only an excellent treatment of Aquinas’s epistemology but also a superb demonstration of just how Aquinas might contribute to contemporary debates. Traditionally, the camps of realism and idealism fiercely engaged one another in the field of epistemology. Thomists participated in confronting idealism from their unique realist position. Post-Wittgenstein, the conflict has been dominated by a form of epistemology that grounds all knowledge in linguistic practice. Since Thomists work in a textual and historical mode, their response to the technical approach of the analytic philosophy in which most of the linguistic epistemologists write has been slow in coming. O’Callaghan expertly closes that gap by successfully bringing together these fields.

Man's Knowledge of Reality

Author : Frederick D. Wilhelmsen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Man's Knowledge of Reality written by Frederick D. Wilhelmsen and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Methodical Realism

Author : Etienne Gilson
Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 1586173049
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book Methodical Realism written by Etienne Gilson and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This short book is a work of one of the 20th century's greatest philosophers and historians of philosophy, Etienne Gilson. The book's title, taken from the first chapter, may sound esoteric but it reflects a common-sense outlook on the world, applied in a methodical way. That approach, known as realism, consists in emphasizing the fact that what is real precedes our concepts about it. In contrast to realism stands idealism, which refers to the philosophical outlook that begins with ideas and tries to move from them to things. Gilson shows how the common-sense notion of realism, though denied by many thinkers, is indispensible for a correct understanding of things--of what is and how we know what is. He shows the flaws of idealism and he critiques efforts to introduce elements of idealism into realist philosophy (immediate realism). At the same time, the author criticizes failures of certain realist philosophers--including Aristotle--to be consistent in their own principles and to begin from sound starting points. To these problems, Gilson traces medieval philosophy's failure in the realm of science, which led early modern scientific thinkers of the 17th century unnecessarily to reject even the best of medieval scholastic philosophy. He concludes with The Realist Beginner's Handbook, a summary of key points for thinking clearly about reality and about the knowledge of it.

The Unity of Philosophical Experience

Author : Etienne Gilson
Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 9780898707489
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Unity of Philosophical Experience written by Etienne Gilson and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Lectures ... given at Harvard University in the first half of the academic year 1936-37"--Foreword.

Ens Primum Cognitum in Thomas Aquinas and the Tradition

Author : Brian Kemple
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004352562
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Ens Primum Cognitum in Thomas Aquinas and the Tradition written by Brian Kemple and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-08-21 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Ens Primum Cognitum, Brian Kemple examines the meaning of Thomas Aquinas’ claim that “being” is the first object of the intellect and proposes an interpretation with dramatic consequences for Thomistic epistemology and metaphysics.

Nature as Reason

Author : Jean Porter
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802849069
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Nature as Reason written by Jean Porter and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This noteworthy book develops a new theory of the natural law that takes its orientation from the account of the natural law developed by Thomas Aquinas, as interpreted and supplemented in the context of scholastic theology in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Though this history might seem irrelevant to twenty-first-century life, Jean Porter shows that the scholastic approach to the natural law still has much to contribute to the contemporary discussion of Christian ethics. Aquinas and his interlocutors provide a way of thinking about the natural law that is distinctively theological while at the same time remaining open to other intellectual perspectives, including those of science. In the course of her work, Porter examines the scholastics' assumptions and beliefs about nature, Aquinas's account of happiness, and the overarching claim that reason can generate moral norms. Ultimately, Porter argues that a Thomistic theory of the natural law is well suited to provide a starting point for developing a more nuanced account of the relationship between specific beliefs and practices. While Aquinas's approach to the natural law may not provide a system of ethical norms that is both universally compelling and detailed enough to be practical, it does offer something that is arguably more valuable -- namely, a way of reflecting theologically on the phenomenon of human morality.

Epistemology

Author : Robert M. Martin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1780741545
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Epistemology written by Robert M. Martin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do you know what you know? Epistemology is the philosophical study of knowledge. Without knowledge, scientific enquiry is meaningless and we can’t begin to analyse the world around us. What is knowledge? How do you know you are not dreaming? Should we trust our senses? Presuming no prior experience of philosophy, this book covers everything in the topic from scepticism and possible worlds to Kant’s transcendentalism. Clear and readable, Epistemology: A Beginner’s Guide is essential reading for students and aspiring thinkers.

Knowledge and the Transcendent

Author : Paul A Macdonald
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813215773
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book Knowledge and the Transcendent written by Paul A Macdonald and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knowledge and the Transcendent advances the provocative claim that the human mind is not "bounded" on the outside but actually remains "open" to the world and to God.

Painting and Reality

Author : Etienne Gilson
Publisher : Cleveland ; New York : World Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Painting and Reality written by Etienne Gilson and published by Cleveland ; New York : World Publishing Company. This book was released on 1959 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Spirit of Mediæval Philosophy

Author : Etienne Gilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The Spirit of Mediæval Philosophy written by Etienne Gilson and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Natural Law and Thomistic Juridical Realism

Author : Petar Popovic
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813235502
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book Natural Law and Thomistic Juridical Realism written by Petar Popovic and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2022-02-04 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book proposes a rather novel legal-philosophical approach to understanding the intersection between law and morality. It does so by analyzing the conditions for the existence of a juridical domain of natural law from the perspective of the tradition of Thomistic juridical realism. In order to highlight the need to reconnect with this tradition in the context of contemporary legal philosophy, the book presents various other recent jurisprudential positions regarding the overlap between law and morality. While most authors either exclude a conceptual necessity for the inclusion of moral principles in the nature of law or refer to the purely moral status of natural law at the foundations of the legal phenomenon, the book seeks to elucidate the essential properties of the juridical status of natural law. In order to establish the juridicity of natural law, the book explores the relevant arguments of Thomas Aquinas and some of his main commentators on this issue, above all Michel Villey and Javier Hervada. It establishes that Thomistic juridical realism observes the juridical phenomenon not only from the perspective of legal norms or subjective individual rights, but also from the perspective of the primary meaning of the concept of right (ius), namely, the just thing itself as the object of justice. In this perspective, natural rights already possess a fully juridical status and can be described as natural juridical goods. In addition, from the viewpoint of Thomistic juridical realism, we can identify certain natural norms or principles of justice as the juridical title of these rights or goods. The book includes an assessment of the prospective points of dialogue with the other trends in Thomistic legal philosophy as well as with various accounts of the nature of law in contemporary legal theory.

A Thomistic Tapestry

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004495797
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book A Thomistic Tapestry written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-12-28 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, written by well-known students of Étienne Gilson and especially dedicated to Armand A. Maurer, helps inaugurate a long-overdue special series in philosophy honoring Gilson’s legendary scholarship. It presents wide-ranging expositions of Thomist realism in the tradition of Gilsonian humanism covering themes related to philosophy in general, historical method, aesthetics, metaphysics, epistemology, and politics.

Thomistic Existentialism and Cosmological Reasoning

Author : John F. X. Knasas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 081323185X
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book Thomistic Existentialism and Cosmological Reasoning written by John F. X. Knasas and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Being and Some Twentieth-century Thomists

Author : John F. X. Knasas
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780823222483
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (224 download)

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Download or read book Being and Some Twentieth-century Thomists written by John F. X. Knasas and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this powerfully argued book, Knasas engages a debate at the heart of the revival of Thomistic thought in the twentieth century. Richly detailed and illuminating, his book calls on the tradition established by Gilson, Maritain, and Owen, to build a case for Existential Thomism as a valid metaphysics. Being and Some Twentieth-Century Thomists is a comprehensive discussion of the major issues and controversies in neo-Thomism, including issues of mind, knowledge, the human subject, free will, nature, grace, and the act of being. Knasas also discusses the Transcendental Thomism of Mar chal, Rahner, Lonergan, and others as he builds a carefully articulated case for completing the Thomist revival.

Jacques Maritain and the Many Ways of Knowing

Author : Douglas A. Ollivant
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 9780966922646
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (226 download)

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Download or read book Jacques Maritain and the Many Ways of Knowing written by Douglas A. Ollivant and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the writings of Jacques Maritain--and by extension those of Thomas Aquinas--the essays in this volume examine the effects of theories of knowledge on individuals, culture, and entire schools of philosophical thought. The contributors challenge contemporary epistemologies, which are largely based on writings of Descartes, Locke, and Kant. They critique these theories internally and demonstrate their incompatibility with other goods, such as liberty, human dignity, and access to the transcendent. In stark contrast to modernity's dubious and fragmented opinions and belief systems, Maritain--in works like The Degrees of Knowledge and Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry--proposed a theory of knowledge that permits real, if limited, knowledge of substances, wholes. Some contributors use these works as a springboard from which to examine aspects or applications of knowledge that Maritain left unexplored. Others challenge or question aspects of Maritain's analysis, seeking to improve upon his work. Still others compare Maritain with other neo-Thomistic philosophers, most notably Etienne Gilson, Alasdair MacIntyre, and Pope John Paul II. Maritain's works on human knowledge and the implicit critique of modernity contained within provide an alternative for those seeking to engage the various deficiencies of the "culture of death." These essays demonstrate the continuing relevance--and timeliness--of Maritain's thought. Douglas A. Ollivant is assistant professor of politics at the United States Military Academy. Contributors: George Anastaplo, James Arraj, Joseph M. de Torre, Robert Delfino, Raymond Dennehy, John M. Dunaway, Robert Fallon, Desmond FitzGerald, William J. Fossati, W. Matthews Grant, Catherine Green, James G. Hanink, Gregory J. Kerr, John F. X. Knasas, John F. Morris, Ralph Nelson, Douglas A. Ollivant, Matthew S. Pugh, Steven J. Schloeder, Christopher H. Toner, John G. Trapani, Jr., Henk E. S. Woldring, and Thomas F. Woods. "This is a valuable collection of articles on an important individual who is still influencing contemporary political thought."--Lucien J. Richard, OMI, Catholic Library World

The Order of Things: The Realism of the Principle of Finality

Author : Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P.
Publisher : Emmaus Academic
ISBN 13 : 194901374X
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book The Order of Things: The Realism of the Principle of Finality written by Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P. and published by Emmaus Academic. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Order of Things: The Realism of the Principle of Finality is an exploration of the metaphysical principle, “Every agent acts for an end.” In the first part, Fr. Garrigou-Lagrange sets forth the basics of the Aristotelian metaphysics of teleology, defending its place as a central point of metaphysics. After defending its per se nota character, he summarizes a number of main corollaries to the principle, primarily within the perspective established by traditional Thomistic accounts of metaphysics, doing so in a way that is pedagogically sensitive yet speculatively profound. In the second half of The Order of Things, Garrigou-Lagrange gathers together a number of articles which he had written, each having some connection with themes concerning teleology. Thematically, the texts consider the finality and teleology of the human intellect and will, along with the way that the principle of finality sheds light on certain problems associated with the distinction between faith and reason. Finally, the text ends with an important essay on the principle of the mutual interdependence of causes, causae ad invicem sunt causae, sed in diverso genere.