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The Arguments of Aquinas: A Philosophical View book cover

1st Edition

The Arguments of Aquinas A Philosophical View

By J.J. MacIntosh Copyright 2017
222 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge
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The Arguments of Aquinas is intended for readers with philosophical interests, who may not be specialists in medieval philosophy. Some think that a medieval saint must be, as such, wrong, dated, and boring; others feel that a saint, any saint, must be right, relevant, and inspirational. Both groups are likely to misread Aquinas, if indeed they read him at all. The works of great philosophers... Read more

Introduction

Part I: Natural Philosophy

1. Necessity and Possibility

2. Causality

3. Time and Motion

4. Time and Infinity

Part II: Natural Theology

5. God's Existence

6. God's Attributes

7. Foreknowledge and Freedom

Part III: Human Beings

8. Epistemology and Philosophy of Mind

9. Souls and Immortality

10. Morality and Method: Aquinas on Lying and Unnatural Practices

Biography

J. J. MacIntosh is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Calgary. His publications include Boyle on Atheism, and papers in Mind, The Thomist, Franciscan Studies, Religious Studies, American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, etc. His research interests include philosophy of religion, history of philosophy, and history and philosophy of science.

"The Arguments of Aquinas is a really good book. It deserves to be studied by anybody wanting to learn about the philosophical thought of Aquinas from someone who can both expound and reflect on him in a way that contemporary philosophers (analytical ones, anyway) might be able to appreciate."

- Brian Davies, Fordham University

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