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A Contemporary Introduction to Thomistic Metaphysics


Free Download Michael Gorman, "A Contemporary Introduction to Thomistic Metaphysics"
English | ISBN: 0813237335 | 2024 | 272 pages | PDF | 10 MB
A Contemporary Introduction to Thomistic Metaphysics provides the reader with an introductory presentation of key themes in Thomistic metaphysics. There are many such books, but this one is, to use a phrase Michael Gorman has adopted, "analytic-facing," i.e., it presents things in dialogue with analytic philosophy. Sometimes that means disagreeing with analytic proposals (for example, possible worlds), and sometimes it means agreeing with them (for instance, making ample use of Ryle’s notion of "systematically misleading expressions").

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A Contemporary Introduction to Thomistic Metaphysics


Free Download Michael Gorman, "A Contemporary Introduction to Thomistic Metaphysics"
English | ISBN: 0813237335 | 2024 | 272 pages | PDF | 10 MB
A Contemporary Introduction to Thomistic Metaphysics provides the reader with an introductory presentation of key themes in Thomistic metaphysics. There are many such books, but this one is, to use a phrase Michael Gorman has adopted, "analytic-facing," i.e., it presents things in dialogue with analytic philosophy. Sometimes that means disagreeing with analytic proposals (for example, possible worlds), and sometimes it means agreeing with them (for instance, making ample use of Ryle’s notion of "systematically misleading expressions").

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Thomistic Common Sense The Philosophy of Being and the Development of Doctrine


Free Download Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, "Thomistic Common Sense: The Philosophy of Being and the Development of Doctrine"
English | ISBN: 1645851079 | 2021 | 352 pages | EPUB | 975 KB
Despite living in an "information age," we are confronted by the clash of ideologies and a crisis of universal knowledge. The Church is not unaffected by the world’s weariness and similarly faces what Fr. Mauro Gagliardi describes as "the lack of truth, or perhaps better, the disinterest in it." Today’s philosophical and doctrinal decline are the results of the loss of first principles and a relativistic view of doctrinal development.

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