Aquinas

Aquinas

by McInerny, Ralph

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"This book is an introduction to the thought of Thomas Aquinas. While primarily a theologian, Aquinas' conception of theology presupposed an autonomous philosophy. This book concentrates on his philosophy while making clear its openness to theology as reflection on Revelation." "As a philosopher, Aquinas is fundamentally Aristotelian. Like Aristotle, he sees philosophy as emerging from the ordinary thinking or ordinary human beings (and philosophers when they are off duty). Philosophy does not…

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  • Full title :Aquinas / Ralph McInerny.

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"This book is an introduction to the thought of Thomas Aquinas. While primarily a theologian, Aquinas' conception of theology presupposed an autonomous philosophy. This book concentrates on his philosophy while making clear its openness to theology as reflection on Revelation."

"As a philosopher, Aquinas is fundamentally Aristotelian. Like Aristotle, he sees philosophy as emerging from the ordinary thinking or ordinary human beings (and philosophers when they are off duty). Philosophy does not intiate certain knowledge but prolongs it by perfecting the instrument of thinking and expanding its content. The quest for wisdom, like that for happiness, is an inescapable fact of human existence.

This book uses key and crucial texts to describe the trajectory of Aquinas' philosophical thought from the analysis of changeable things through the reasoned awareness that to be and to be material are not identical to such knowledge as we can have of God. This brings Aquinas to the threshold of Christian faith."--Jacket.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2004.

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The Physical Object

  • Description:vii, 160 pages ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:0745626866, 9780745626864, 0745626874, 9780745626871
  • oclc:ocm51977921
  • LC Classification:B765.T54
  • Dewey Decimal:189/.4

Table of Contents

Origins -- Montecassino (1230-1239) -- University of Naples (1239-1244) -- Under house arrest (1244-1245) -- Cologne and Albert the Great (1245-1248) -- Student at Paris (1252-1256) -- First Paris professorship (1256-1259) -- Italian interlude (1259-1268) -- Second Paris period (1269-1272) -- Naples (1272-1274) -- Theology presupposes philosophy -- The quest of philosophy -- Theoretical and practical -- The order of learning -- The two theologies -- The four orders -- The logical order -- Our natural way of knowing -- Matter and form -- Things that come to be as the result of a change -- The Parmenidean problem -- The sequel -- The Prime Mover -- The soul -- Sense perception -- Immortality of human soul -- The opening to metaphysics -- The big problem -- The two theologies revisited -- Being as being -- Analogy -- Being as analogous -- Substance -- Presuppositions of metaphysics -- God and metaphysics -- Ipsum esse subsistens -- The moral order -- Ultimate end in Aristotle -- Ultimate end in Thomas -- Virtuous action -- Natural law -- Natural inclinations -- Virtue and law -- Practical syllogism -- End/means -- The common good -- Natural and supernatural ends -- Preambles of faith…

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Subjects

Christian philosophers -- 13th century.… Former Course Reserve reading Thomas (von Aquin) Thomas, von Aquin, Heiliger Thomas,, Aquinas, Saint

Writers

McInerny, Ralph

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