Aquinas - Mcinerny, Ralph
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This book is a lively and highly accessible 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 of ordinary human beings (and philosophers when they are off duty). Philosophy does not initiate certain knowledge but prolongs it by perfecting the instrument of…mehr

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This book is a lively and highly accessible 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 of ordinary human beings (and philosophers when they are off duty). Philosophy does not initiate 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.
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Ralph McInerny is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame.
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"Ralph McInerny knows as much about Thomas Aquinas, and about howto communicate his thought, as anyone else alive. He is not only avery learned commentator upon him, but also a fluent, lucid, andoften entertaining writer, who can make profound ideas seemdeceptively simple....McInerny offers an accessible guide to adifficult and important topic."

The Heythrop Journal

"McInery is perhaps the most important Catholic philosopher ofhis generation. While many limit philosophy to textual exegesis offormal logic, McInerny, in the spirit of his immediate predecessorsEtienne Gilson and Jacques Maritain, still regards philosophy asthe pursuit of wisdom, speculative and practical. Steeped in thehistory of philosophy, McInerny is a reliable guide to Aristotleand Aquinas and their commentators through the ages. He writes notfor colleagues down the hall or for the appreciation of antiquityor who seek an intellectual compass in stormy times. Translatedinto many languages, his work rightly commands a global audience.For its freshness, Aquinas will only enhance McInerny'sstatus as a major interpreter of the Angelic Doctor."

Jude P. Dougherty, The Catholic University ofAmerica

"Aquinas lived in a time of remarkable intellectual andreligious ferment. His thought, which McInerny following John PaulII describes as an implicit philosophy, articulates not just forhis own time, but foe all times, the philosophical principlesimplicitly operative in human nature. In his new primer on Aquinas,Ralph McInerny manages the impossible. He gives us Aquinas, histimes, the core of his philosophical teaching, and the significanceof his continued contribution to philosophy and theology. With thedeft stlye of the novelist and the clarity of a seasoned teacher ofAquinas, McInerny provides a marvelous path into the thought of thegreatest of Catholic teachers."

Thomas Hibbs, Boston College…mehr