Aquinas (Classic Thinkers) - Hardcover

McInerny, Ralph

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0745626866 ISBN 13: 9780745626864

Verlag: Polity, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

This lively and highly accessible introduction to the thought of Thomas Aquinas focuses on his philosophy while making clear its openness to theology as reflection on Revelation.

• Introduces students this great philosopher of the middle ages in one short book.
• Brings together alternative approaches to Aquinas’ thought.
• Uses key texts to describe the trajectory of Aquinas’ philosophy and the legacy it left behind.
• This is the first title in a new Polity series, Classic Thinkers.

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Ralph McInerny is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame.

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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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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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Polity
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0745626866
• ISBN 13: 9780745626864
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 168
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