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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780767703321

Autore

Rescher Nicholas

Titolo

Scholastic meditations [[electronic resource] /] / Nicholas Rescher

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : Catholic University of America Press, 2005

ISBN

0-8132-1645-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (182 p.)

Collana

Studies in philosophy and the history of philosophy ; ; v. 44

Disciplina

100 s

189/.4

Soggetti

Scholasticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Choice without preference : the problem of "Buridan's ass" -- Nicholas of Cusa on the Koran : a fifteenth-century encounter with Islam -- On learned ignorance and the limits of knowledge -- Unanswerable questions and insolubilia -- Omniscience and our understanding of God's knowledge -- Issues of infinite regress -- Being qua being -- Nonexistents then and now -- Thomism : past, present, and future -- Respect for tradition and the Catholic philosopher today.