Frederick D Wilhelmsen

Being and Knowing

Reflections of a Thomist

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Being and Knowing, rooted in the philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas, rests on two basic assertions: first, metaphysics is the science of being in its first and ultimate act, existence; second, that existence is known not through observing objects, but in affirming through judgments that these objects are subjects of existence

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9781138519411
• ISBN-10: 1138519413
• Artikelnr.: 50859392

Autorenporträt

Frederick D. Wilhelmsen

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction to the Transaction Edition,
by William Marshner
Introduction
I Metaphysics as Creativity
II The Triplex Via and the Transcendence of Esse
III The Concept of Existence and the Structure of Judgment: A Thomistic
Paradox
IV The Priority of Judgment over Question: Reflections on Transcendental
Thomism
V Existence and Esse
VI Creation as a Relation in St. Thomas Aquinas
VII Reasoning and Computers
VIII The "I" and Aquinas
IX Modern Man's Myth of Self-Identity
X Subject Analysis in the Philosophy of Communications
XI A Meditation on the Dignity of the Human Person Prompted by Saint Thomas
Aquinas
XII The Christian Understanding of Being: A Thomistic Reading
Index