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Aquinas & Sartre : on freedom, personal identity, and the possibility of happiness / Stephen Wang.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wang, Stephen, 1966-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.
- Thomas.
- Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980.
- Sartre, Jean-Paul.
- Liberty.
- Identity (Psychology).
- Happiness.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (328 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Thomas Aquinas and Jean-Paul Sartre are usually identified with completely different philosophical traditions: intellectualism and voluntarism. In this original study, Stephen Wang shows, instead, that there are some profound similarities in their understanding of freedom and human identity.
- Contents:
- Historical introduction
- Human being
- Identity and human incompletion in Sartre
- Identity and human incompletion in Aquinas
- Human understanding
- The subjective nature of objective understanding in Sartre
- The subjective nature of objective understanding in Aquinas
- Human freedom
- Freedom, choice, and the indetermination of reason in Sartre
- Freedom, choice, and the indetermination of reason in Aquinas
- Human fulfillment
- The possibility of human happiness in Sartre
- The possibility of human happiness in Aquinas.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-291) and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8132-1894-2
- OCLC:
- 707926439
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