Being and some twentieth-century Thomists / John Knasas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Knasas, John F. X.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Thomists--History--20th century.

Thomists.

Ontology--History--20th century.

Ontology.

History.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 340 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Being & some twentieth-century Thomists

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2003.

Summary:

In this powerfully argued book, John Knasas engages a debate at the heart of the revival of Thomistic thought in the twentieth century. Richly detailed and illuminating, his book calls on the tradition established by Gilson, Maritain, and Owen, to build a case for Existential Thomism as a valid metaphysics. Being and Some Twentieth-Century Thomists is a comprehensive discussion of the major issues and controversies in neo-Thomism, including issues of mind, knowledge, the human subject, free will, nature, grace, and the act of being. Knasas also discusses the Transcendental Thomism of Marechal, Rahner, Lonergan, and others as he builds a carefully articulated case for completing the Thomist revival.

Contents:

1. Whither the Neo-Thomist Revival? 1

1. "Thomist" and "Thomist Revival"

2. A posteriori Thomism

3. Aristotelian Thomism

4. Existential Thomism

5. Transcendental Thomism

6. Difficulties in Neo-Thomism

7. The Revival's End

2. Sensation as the Source of Science 32

1. Science and Abstraction

2. Abstraction with and without Precision

3. Natural Philosophy and Mathematics

4. Metaphysics and Joseph Marechal (A)

5. Metaphysics and Joseph Marechal (B)

6. Metaphysics and Jacques Maritain

7. Metaphysics and Gilsonian Joseph Owens

3. Sensation: The Invasion of the Real 71

1. Immediate, or Direct, Realism

2. Descartes' Dream Possibility and Its Context

3. Yves R. Simon's Neo-Thomist Reply

4. Another Neo-Thomist Reply

5. Relativities in Perception

6. Spiritus Malignus

4. The Objectivity of the Notion of Being 93

1. Joseph Marechal and Intellectual Dynamism

2. Karl Rahner and the Horizon of Infinite Being

3. Bernard J. F. Lonergan and the Pure Desire to Know

4. Jacques Maritain and Critical Realism

5. Inadequacy of Retorsion

6. Retorsion and De Ver. 1, 9

7. Retorsion and In IV Meta., Lectio 7

5. The Richness of the Ratio Entis 129

1. Maritain's Intellectual Perception of Being

2. Neo-Thomists on the Analogical Concept

3. Examples from Ordinary Experience

4. Thomistic Confirmation

5. Types of Analogy

6. The Richness of the Ratio Entis

7. Ralph McInerny and Analogy

8. Analogy and Logical Demands

9. Analogy as Supra-Conceptual

10. Le Blond and the Poverty of Concepts

6. Actus Essendi 173

1. The Definition of Habens Esse

2. Actus Essendi and the Metaphysical Concept of Being

3. Prima Operatio Intellectus

4. Secunda Operatio Intellectus

5. Metaphysical Application of the Prima Operatio

6. Metaphysical Application of the Secunda Operatio

7. Criticisms and Replies

8. Reply to A. J. Ayer and Comments on Brian Davies

9. The Intelligible Heart of the Ratio Entis

7. Esse Subsistens 213

1. A Framework for Knowledge of Causality

2. David Hume's Critique

3. Application to Esse

4. Etienne Gilson and the De Ente Proof

5. Armand Maurer and the De Ente Proof

6. The Metaphysician's "Thinking" of Esse Subsistens

7. Analogy and Cognitio Confusa

8. Analogical Middle Terms in Talk about God

8. The Ratio Boni and Natural Law Ethics 248

1. Obligation, or Moral Necessity, and the Willer of the Good

2. The Ratio Entis as the Ratio Boni

3. The Will's Contact with the Ratio Boni

4. The Appearance of Obligation and the Remainder of 94, 2

5. Obligation and the Intellector of Being

6. Germain Grisez' Interpretation

7. Comments on Grisez

8. Metaphysics and Ethics

9. A Philosophical Estimate of the Twentieth-Century Thomist Revival 284

1. Retorsion and Realism

2. Transcendental Thomism and the Thomistic Texts

3. Neo-Thomism's Epistemological Debilities

4. Finite to Infinite

5. Nature and Grace

6. Current Neo-Thomists on the Natural Desire

7. Neo-Thomism and Human Experience

8. Neo-Thomism and Historicity

9. Neo-Thomism and the Future.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [321]-334) and index.

ISBN:

0823222489

OCLC:

51289899