Bücher der Reihe Scholastic Editions - Editiones Scholasticae

Discusses a wide spectrum of analytic, scholastic and apologetic philosophy and theology in order to argue that apart from religious experience, it cannot be evident (in a defined sense of psychological impossibility) that the Trinity doctrine is logically possible. Hence, this conclusion is drawn deductively.

This book has been written to excite its readers about the value and beauty of moral philosophy: ethics. While its primary purpose is to serve as an introduction to the science of moral philosophy, the fundamental aim of the book is to excite readers in a subject that is not an intellectual luxury but an essential ingredient to our lives.

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.

Provides an overview of Scholastic approaches to causation, substance, essence, modality, identity, persistence, teleology, and other issues in fundamental metaphysics. The book interacts heavily with the literature on these issues in contemporary analytic metaphysics.

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.

It lies in the very nature of epistemology to question the capability of man's mind to contact reality and to know what things are in themselves, the validity of all knowledge, and consequently also of science, it at sake. The foundations of human knowledge are challenged, examined and frequently attacked.

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.

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.

It is the author's belief that philosophers, if they aspire to critical thinking, have to start their investigation by embracing the concept of truth as an underlying characteristic of the human thought.

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.

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.

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.

The human intellect must begin with sensible things, and hence all principles must somehow be found in sense experience. The discovery of principles is an induction. But there is no danger of empiricism or sensism if we remember that Aristotle and Aquinas were ready to stake their whole philosophy on the idea that sensible things are intelligible.

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"".

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.

Contains a clear, simple, and methodological exposition of the principles and problems of every department of philosophy, and its appeal is not to any particular class, but broadly human and universal. Volume I includes a general introduction to philosophy and sections on cosmology, psychology, criteriology, and metaphysics or ontology.

Neo-Aristotelians, Analytic Scholastics, and Analytical Thomists have made significant contributions to several fields within contemporary philosophy, including metaphysics, philosophy of mind and philosophy of science. This volume of new essays brings together some of the leading thinkers of this movement.

Provides an introduction to the metaphysical study of life in undergraduate colleges. The book presupposes that the student has made a study of general metaphysics or at least has been given a good introduction to the general problems of philosophy.

No realistic philosophy can be considered complete unless it includes a philosophy of nature. The philosophy of human nature is an area where most of the problems of the philosophy of nature occur, some of them in a crucial form. This is a reprint of the 1953 edition.

The first volume of this introduction to Thomistic philosophy includes cosmology as the philosophy of inanimate nature, and the philosophy of animate nature that is philosophical psychology. This is a reprint of the 1962 New York edition.

Presents the traditional scholastic philosophy of man's nature in a fresh light, from a point of view that may make it more acceptable to the modern scientific mind. This should interest philosophers looking for a new presentation, as well as psychologists looking for philosophical orientation.

The point of view which was chosen for treatment in these lectures is that of the relational aspects in mediaeval philosophy. It is a study which relates the philosophy to the other factors in that civilization taken as an organic whole. This is a reprint of the 1953 Dover edition.

The pedagogical aim which we have before us in this book forces us to limit ourselves to the consideration of the great and central doctrines of Thomism, and to leave aside the innumerable applications of those doctrines which may be found scattered up and down the extensive works of Thomas Aquinas. This is a reprint of the 1959 Dover edition.

This is not a summary of philosophical problems. Cotter does not give an outline of the history of philosophy with problems arranged by period. Instead, he confines himself to a few important data on the principal philosophers of past ages, and tries to sketch the intellectual equipment with which the student is supposed to begin philosophy.

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.

Provides a systematic and very accurate introduction to scholastic philosophy. Part one explores logic and dialectic. Part two deals with metaphysics and ontology. Part three examines cosmology, followed by the fourth part which embraces rational psychology. Part five deals with natural theology.

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.

This manual is a true work of synthesis of seven centuries of Thomistic tradition. This translation now provides English speakers with an introduction to Thomistic philosophy that follows the scholastic scientific methodology faithfully, thus providing them with a solid means of learning the all-but-forgotten art of scholastic disputation.

A handbook on the fundamentals of the science, brief and succinct enough to be practical and yet substantial enough to provide the solid foundation of the traditional from which to approach the ""mysteries"" of modern developments in the field.

Contains a clear, simple, and methodological exposition of the principles and problems of every department of philosophy, and its appeal is not to any particular class, but broadly human and universal. Volume II contains sections on natural theology, logic, ethics and outlines of the history of philosophy.