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Scholastic meditations / Nicholas Rescher.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rescher, Nicholas.
- Series:
- Studies in philosophy and the history of philosophy ; v. 44.
- Studies in philosophy and the history of philosophy ; v. 44
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Scholasticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (182 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The studies gathered in this volume seek to do homage to the spirit of Scholasticism. They address key issues in that tradition--some from an historical point of view, others from a more substantive standpoint.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8132-1645-1
- OCLC:
- 922996370
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