Selected Philosophical Writings

Name: Selected Philosophical Writings
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ISBN: 9780192835857

ISBN-10: 0192835858

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Authors: Thomas Aquinas, Timothy McDermott, Timothy McDermott

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St Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) saw religion as part of the natural human propensity to worship. His ability to recognize the naturalness of this phenomenon and simultaneously to go beyond it, to explore spiritual revelation, makes his work fresh and highly readable today. While drawing on a strong distinction between theology and philosophy, Aquinas interleaved them intricately in his writings, which range from an examination of the structures of thought to the concept of God as the end of all things. This accessible new translation chooses substantial passages not only from the indispensable Summa Theologicae, but from many other works, fully illustrating the breadth and progression of…

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List price: $14.95
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/20/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 496
Size: 5.08" wide x 7.72" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Selected Philosophical Writings


Acknowledgements


Introduction


Note on Sources and Text


Select Bibliography



on Natural Science, Mathematics, and Metaphysics



Structures of Thought



Structures of Things in General



Actual and Potential Being



Matter, Form, Agent, and Goal



Substance and Accidents, Action and Passion



Substance and Accidents, Action and Passion



the Ladder of Being



How Elements Are Present Within Compounds



How Elements Are Present Within Compounds



How Elements Are Present Within Compounds



Inner and Outer Senses



Mind [a]



Mind [b]



Mind [c]



Mind [c]



Mind [c]



Mind [c]



Soul in Human Beings



My Soul is Not Me



God in Himself



God is His Own Existence



God is His Own Existence



Do We Have Words for God?



How We Know One Simple God by Many Concepts



How We Know One Simple God by Many Concepts



How We Know One Simple God by Many Concepts



God as the Beginning of Things



Creation as God's Doing



Did Creation Occur in Time?



Providence (a): the Ordered Universe



Providence (b): Chance and Freedom



Providence (c): How Evil is Caused



Providence (c): How Evil is Caused



is God at Work in Nature and in Will?



God as the End of Things



Moral Action



Virtue



Virtue



Virtue


Notes


Index