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  • - A Historical and Analytical Study of Aristotle's Modal Logic
    av Daniel James Vecchio
    972,-

    Provides a critical and historical account of Aristotelian essentialism and modal logic. Interpretations and claims of inconsistency in Aristotle's modal syllogistic are examined. Proofs for each of the mixed apodictic syllogisms are analysed. How Aristotle's modal metaphysics fits within the context of the Posterior Analytics is discussed.

  • - The Metaphysical Foundations of Physical and Biological Science
    av Edward Feser
    355,-

    Actuality and potentiality, substantial form and prime matter, efficient causality and teleology are among the fundamental concepts of Aristotelian philosophy of nature. Aristotle's Revenge argues that these concepts are not only compatible with modern science, but are implicitly presupposed by modern science.

  • - A Moral Analysis of Lying and Homosexual Activity
    av John Skalko
    549,-

    Bridges the gap within current philosophical scholarship by painstakingly examining the non-religious argument as found within the philosopher Thomas Aquinas. In the process the author advances a novel claim: the traditional account against homosexual activity also applies to untruthful assertive speech acts.

  • av Marco Simionato
    959,-

    Deals with the question of nothingness and metaphysical nihilism in analytic philosophy. After evaluating an account of nothingness based on the notion of an empty possible world, the book proposes two original arguments for metaphysical nihilism.

  • - A Synthesis of Metaphysics
    av Louis de Raeymaeker
    959,-

    The choice of the basis of metaphysics is of capital importance. This basis ought to guarantee the very existence and validity of metaphysics, while at the same time giving this science its formal object and a solid foundation.

  • - An Inquiry into the Act of Existing
    av Charles Hart
    1 089,-

    One of the objectives of this book is to make Thomistic metaphysics - an inquiry into the act of existing, the act of to be, exercised by all beings to some degree - more understandable. The problems of metaphysics and their solutions are presented in the simplest terms, with special emphasis on their significance for the contemporary mind.

  • av John Daniel Wild
    959,-

    The first extended attempt to explain Plato's ethics of natural law, to place it accurately in the history of moral theory, and to defend it against the objections that it is totalitarian. Wild provides a clarification of Plato's ethical doctrine and a defense of that doctrine. This is a reprint of the 1953 Chicago edition.

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    1 268,-

    This collection of essays is the result of intersecting two areas of philosophical investigation which are often thought to be widely apart: analytic philosophy and the doctrine of St Thomas Aquinas. The authors breathe new life into old ideas by examining Thomistic theses and arguments by applying the techniques of analytic Philosophy.

  • av David Svoboda
    830,-

    The quest for unity and multiplicity is one of the most important concerns in the history of human thought and has been of unceasing interest since the birth of the history of philosophy to the present day. The same holds true of the writings of St Thomas Aquinas, and this work is devoted to his ideas.

  • av John Wild
    1 219,-

    Provides an introduction to the basic concepts and principles of classic, realistic philosophy. Without some grasp of its basic principles, it is impossible to understand either the history of modern philosophy or the present nature of western culture. The method followed is critical and systematic rather than ""historical"".

  • - An Historical-Critical Analysis in the Light of Scholastic Philosophy
    av Augustine J. Osgniach
    959,-

    This work attempts to bring to light the doctrine on the fundamental categories as taught by Thomas Aquinas and other great masters of the golden era of Scholasticism. At the same time it reviews, historically and critically, its high philosophical excellence.

  • - Medieval & Modern
    av Maurice de Wulf
    570,-

    The aim of the book is to meet and combat false conceptions, to co-ordinate true notions, and so to furnish the reader with some general information on old and new scholasticism. The advantage of the book is its two-sided perspective that contains historical investigations about the ancient sources of scholastic philosophy and its decline.

  • - From the Standpoint of Scholastic Philosophy
    av J. Elliot Ross
    429,-

    Contains an investigation of ethics from a scholastic standpoint. The book examines the fundamental theory of action. The author then develops the conceptions of duty and laws as concrete duties. Finally the book examines social ethics as embracing the rights and duties of men in their relations with other men, both as individuals and as groups.

  • - An Introduction to Scholastic Philosophy
    av John Peterson
    295,-

    Deals with teleology, truth, predication, knowledge and belief, universals, body and mind, soul, and reason. The book's approach is integrative, scholastic and analytic. Teleology is required for causality, truth and reason. Where the measure is an end, things measure mind in theoretical truth and mind measures things in practical truth.

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