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Author : Sir Anthony Kenny
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 18,79 MB
Release : 2013-04-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1134829744
This book shows how the mature writings of Thomas Aquinas though written in the thirteenth century have much to offer the human mind and the relationship between intellect and will, body and soul.
Author : Norman Kretzmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,95 MB
Release : 1993-05-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1139825097
Among the great philosophers of the Middle Ages Aquinas is unique in pursuing two apparently disparate projects. On the one hand he developed a philosophical understanding of Christian doctrine in a fully integrated system encompassing all natural and supernatural reality. On the other hand, he was convinced that Aristotle's philosophy afforded the best available philosophical component of such a system. In a relatively brief career Aquinas developed these projects in great detail and with an astonishing degree of success. In this volume ten leading scholars introduce all the important aspects of Aquinas' thought, ranging from its historical background and dependence on Greek, Islamic, and Jewish philosophy and theology, through the metaphysics, epistemology and ethics, to the philosophical approach to Biblical commentary.
Author : Sir Anthony Kenny
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 21,91 MB
Release : 2013-04-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1134829752
This book shows how the mature writings of Thomas Aquinas though written in the thirteenth century have much to offer the human mind and the relationship between intellect and will, body and soul.
Author : Anthony Kenny
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 23,8 MB
Release : 2002-09-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191543975
Anthony Kenny offers a critical examination of a central metaphysical doctrine of Thomas Aquinas, the greatest of the medieval philosophers. Aquinas's account of being is famous and influential: but Kenny argues that it in fact suffers from systematic confusion. Because of the centrality of the doctrine, this has implications for other parts of Aquinas's philosophical system: in particular, Kenny shows that the idea that God is pure being is a hindrance, not a help, to Aquinas's natural theology. Kenny's clear and incisive study, drawing on the scholastic as well as the analytic tradition, dispels the confusion and offers philosophers and theologians a guide through the labyrinth of Aquinas's ontology.
Author : Robert Pasnau
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 12,63 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521001892
A major new study of Aquinas and his central project: the understanding of human nature.
Author : Anthony J. Lisska
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 42,98 MB
Release : 2016-06-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0191083666
Anthony J. Lisska presents a new analysis of Thomas Aquinas's theory of perception. While much work has been undertaken on Aquinas's texts, little has been devoted principally to his theory of perception and less still on a discussion of inner sense. The thesis of intentionality serves as the philosophical backdrop of this analysis while incorporating insights from Brentano and from recent scholarship. The principal thrust is on the importance of inner sense, a much-overlooked area of Aquinas's philosophy of mind, with special reference to the vis cogitativa. Approaching the texts of Aquinas from contemporary analytic philosophy, Lisska suggests a modest 'innate' or 'structured' interpretation for the role of this inner sense faculty. Dorothea Frede suggests that this faculty is an 'embarrassment' for Aquinas; to the contrary, the analysis offered in this book argues that were it not for the vis cogitativa, Aquinas's philosophy of mind would be an embarrassment. By means of this faculty of inner sense, Aquinas offers an account of a direct awareness of individuals of natural kinds—referred to by Aquinas as incidental objects of sense—which comprise the principal ontological categories in Aquinas's metaphysics. By using this awareness of individuals of a natural kind, Aquinas can make better sense out of the process of abstraction using the active intellect (intellectus agens). Were it not for the vis cogitativa, Aquinas would be unable to account for an awareness of the principal ontological category in his metaphysics.
Author : Therese Scarpelli Cory
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 48,41 MB
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 1107042925
A study of Aquinas's theory of self-knowledge, situated within the mid-thirteenth-century debate and his own maturing thought on human nature.
Author : Anthony Kenny
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 40,73 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780192830708
Brings together in a systematic way Anthony Kenny's work in the philosopy of mind. It is intended as a sustained attack on a false view of the mind, the Cartesian view, and a demonstration that clarity is impossible without good metaphysics
Author : Fabrizio Amerini
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 10,10 MB
Release : 2013-06-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0674073460
In contemporary discussions of abortion, both sides argue well-worn positions, particularly concerning the question, When does human life begin? Though often invoked by the Catholic Church for support, Thomas Aquinas in fact held that human life begins after conception, not at the moment of union. But his overall thinking on questions of how humans come into being, and cease to be, is more subtle than either side in this polarized debate imagines. Fabrizio Amerini—an internationally-renowned scholar of medieval philosophy—does justice to Aquinas’ views on these controversial issues. Some pro-life proponents hold that Aquinas’ position is simply due to faulty biological knowledge, and if he knew what we know today about embryology, he would agree that human life begins at conception. Others argue that nothing Aquinas could learn from modern biology would have changed his mind. Amerini follows the twists and turns of Aquinas’ thinking to reach a nuanced and detailed solution in the final chapters that will unsettle familiar assumptions and arguments. Systematically examining all the pertinent texts and placing each in historical context, Amerini provides an accurate reconstruction of Aquinas’ account of the beginning and end of human life and assesses its bioethical implications for today. This major contribution is available to an English-speaking audience through translation by Mark Henninger, himself a noted scholar of medieval philosophy.
Author : Denys Turner
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 43,95 MB
Release : 2013-05-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0300188552
DIVA concise and illuminating introduction to the elusive Thomas Aquinas, the man and the saint/div