Thomistic Existentialism and Cosmological Reasoning
Author: John F. X. Knasas
Publisher:
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 081323185X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: John F. X. Knasas
Publisher:
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 081323185X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Joseph C. Mihalich
Publisher: New York : Philosophical Library
Published: 1960
Total Pages: 104
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →These original essays, intended for laymen rather than professional philosophers, deal with aspects of contemporary Existentialism from the viewpoint of traditional (Aristotelian-Thomistic) philosophy. They examine the philosophies of Sartre, Marcel, Heidegger, and Husserl, and discuss the challenge that modern Existentialism poses for traditional philosophy.
Author: Steven Nemes
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2023-08-28
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 1666773581
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book argues that the doctrine of God taken for granted in the catholic tradition (divine transcendence, creatio ex nihilo, divine simplicity) makes it impossible to give an intelligible and coherent interpretation of the verbal formulas of the catholic dogmas of Trinity and incarnation. By way of response to this apparent incoherence at the heart of the catholic theological tradition, it proposes an alternative post-catholic take on these central doctrines in the light of a qualified monistic conception of God and a "Spirit Christological" interpretation of Jesus's relation to God the Father as presented in the New Testament.
Author: Jim Holt
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2012-07-17
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 0871404095
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this astonishing and profound work, an irreverent sleuth traces the riddleof existence from the ancient world to modern times.
Author: Daniel Shields
Publisher: CUA Press
Published: 2023-05-26
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 0813236673
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Aquinas's first proof for God's existence is usually interpreted as a metaphysical argument immune to any objections coming from empirical science. Connections to Aquinas's own historical understanding of physics and cosmology are ignored or downplayed. Nature and Nature's God proposes a natural philosophical interpretation of Aquinas's argument more sensitive to the broader context of Aquinas's work and yielding a more historically accurate account of the argument. Paradoxically, the book also shows that, on such an interpretation, Aquinas's argument is not only consistent with modern science, but actually confirmed by the history of science, from classical mechanics through 19th century thermodynamics to contemporary cosmology. The first part of the book considers Aquinas's argument in its historical context, exploring the key principles that everything in motion is moved by something else and that an infinite regress of causes is impossible. The structure of the First Way is analyzed and the argument is connected both with Aquinas's Third Way?a new interpretation of which is also proposed?and Aquinas's second proof from motion in the Summa contra Gentiles. To complete the account of what natural philosophy?prior to metaphysics?can demonstrate about God, a chapter on Aquinas's teleological argument (the Fifth Way) is also included. The second part of the book tracks the history of modern science from Copernicus to today, showing how Aquinas's argument fared at each major turn. The first chapter shows how Newton's understanding of inertia and conservation of momentum supports the idea that motion cannot continue forever without God's causality, and integrates a modern understanding of inertia and gravity with the principles of Thomistic natural philosophy. The second chapter considers the first and second laws of thermodynamics, showing how they too support Aquinas's contention that motion cannot continue forever without God's causality. This chapter also discusses statistical mechanics and contemporary cosmology, demonstrating that science continues to support Aquinas's unmoved mover argument. The final chapter turns to modern biology as well as cosmological fine-tuning to show that modern science also continues to support Aquinas's teleological argument. The result is not only a satisfying defense of Aquinas's natural philosophical proofs for God's existence, but a primer on the broader project of integrating Thomistic natural philosophy with modern science.
Author: Jacques Maritain
Publisher: Paulist Press
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13: 1587682419
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In a substantial philosophical work, Jacques Maritain designated Christianity as the sole full humanism. Defender of Catholic orthodoxy, he contributed to the renaissance of Thomism, which had a great influence on the philosophical renewal that took place between the two wars.
Author: Patrick Zoll
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2022-10-24
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 311097987X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In der 1970 gegründeten Reihe erscheinen Arbeiten, die philosophiehistorische Studien mit einem systematischen Ansatz oder systematische Studien mit philosophiehistorischen Rekonstruktionen verbinden. Neben deutschsprachigen werden auch englischsprachige Monographien veröffentlicht. Gründungsherausgeber sind: Erhard Scheibe (Herausgeber bis 1991), Günther Patzig (bis 1999) und Wolfgang Wieland (bis 2003). Von 1990 bis 2007 wurde die Reihe von Jürgen Mittelstraß, von 2005 bis 2020 von Jens Halfwassen mitherausgegeben.
Author: Christopher M. Cullen, SJ
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 0813231876
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Contributions to this volume examine three main areas relating to the metaphysics of Thomas Aquinas: the foundation of metaphysics within Thomism; the use of metaphysics in fundamental philosophical issues within Thomism; and the use of metaphysics in central theological issues"--
Author: John F. X. Knasas
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780823222483
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Herve J. Thibault
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014-08-23
Total Pages: 87
ISBN-13: 9789401750844
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →During the last twenty-five years or so, studies in Thomistic existentialism have repeatedly indicated that the notion of creation played a decisive role in St. Thomas Aquinas' view of existence as an existential act or actus es sendi. The importance for metaphysics of this view of existence as act war rants an investigation of the relation between creation and actus essendi; for St. Thomas is the only one, in the history of philosophy, to have con sidered existence as an act-of-being. This study will be limited to the early works of St. Thomas. By the time of the Summa Contra Gentiles, he had reached the key positions of his metaphysics. And the first fifty-three chap ters of the Summa Contra Gentiles were written in Paris before June, 1259; 1 the rest was completed in Italy before 1265. The project was therefore con ceived by St. Thomas during the first period of his career. How the notion of creation enabled him to transform the Aristotelian metaphysics of essence into a metaphysics of esse can be seen from three sections of the Summa Contra Gentiles. Although primarily a theological treatise, the Contra Gentiles never theless accomplishes a radical metaphysical transformation of Aristotelian ism by shifting the whole perspective from esse in actu per formam to actus essendi. Seen from the perspective of existential act as the absolute perfec tion, metaphysics is raised to a strictly transcendental plane of consideration.