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Record Nr.

UNISA996205069503316

Titolo

The Cambridge companion to Aquinas / / edited by Norman Kretzmann and Eleonore Stump [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1993

ISBN

1-139-81524-5

1-139-00058-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 302 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge companions to philosophy

Disciplina

189/.4

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).

Nota di contenuto

Aquinas's philosophy in its historical setting / Jan A. Aertsen -- Aristotle and Aquinas / Joseph Owens -- Aquinas and Islamic and Jewish thinkers / David B. Burrell -- Metaphysics / John F. Wippel -- Philosophy of mind / Norman Kretzmann -- Theory of knowledge / Scott MacDonald -- Ethics / Ralph McInerny -- Law and politics / Paul E. Sigmund -- Theology and philosophy / Mark D. Jordan -- Biblical commentary and philosophy / Eleonore Stump.

Sommario/riassunto

Among the great philosophers of the Middle Ages Aquinas is unique in pursuing two apparently disparate projects. On the one hand he developed a philosophical understanding of Christian doctrine in a fully integrated system encompassing all natural and supernatural reality. On the other hand, he was convinced that Aristotle's philosophy afforded the best available philosophical component of such a system. In a relatively brief career Aquinas developed these projects in great detail and with an astonishing degree of success. In this volume ten leading scholars introduce all the important aspects of Aquinas' thought, ranging from its historical background and dependence on Greek, Islamic, and Jewish philosophy and theology, through the metaphysics, epistemology and ethics, to the philosophical approach to Biblical commentary.