The creative retrieval of Saint Thomas Aquinas : essays in Thomistic philosophy, new and old / W. Norris Clarke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clarke, W. Norris (William Norris), 1915-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.

Thomas.

Thomas, --Aquinas, Saint, --1225?-1274.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 271 p. )

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

W. Norris Clarke has chosen the fifteen essays in this collection, five of which appear here for the first time, as the most significant of the more than seventy he has written over the course of a long career. Clarke is known for his development of a Thomistic personalism. To be a person, according to Saint Thomas, is to take conscious self-possession of one's own being, to be master of oneself. But our incarnate mode of being human involves living in a body whose life unfolds across time, and is inevitably dispersed across time. If we wish to know fully who we are, we need to assimilate and integrate this dispersal, so that our lives become a coherent story. In addition to the existentialist thought of Etienne Gilson and others, Clarke draws on the Neoplatonic dimension of participation. Existence as act and participation have been the central pillars of his metaphysical thought, especially in its unique manifestation in the human person.The essays collected here cover a wide range of philosophical, ethical, religious, and aesthetic topics. Through them sounds a very personal voice, one that has inspired generations of students and scholars.

Contents:

Part I: Reprinted articles

Twenty-fourth award of the Aquinas medal, by the American Catholic Philosophical Association, to W. Norris Clarke, SJ

Interpersonal dialogue : key to realism

Causality and time

System : a new category of being?

A curious blind spot in the Anglo-American tradition of antitheistic argument

The problem of the reality and multiplicity of divine ideas in Christian neoplatonism

Is the ethical eudaimonism of Saint Thomas too self-centered?

Conscience and the person

Democracy, ethics, religion : an intrinsic connection

What cannot be said in Saint Thomas's essence-existence doctrine

Living on the edge : the human person as "frontier being" and microcosm

The metaphysics of religious art : reflections on a text of Saint Thomas

Part II: New articles

The immediate creation of the human soul by God and some contemporary challenges

The creative imagination : unique expression of our soul-body unity

The creative imagination as treated in Western thought

The integration of personalism and Thomistic metaphysics in twenty-first-century Thomism.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-259) and indexes.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9786612698859

9780823236671

0823236676

9780823246823

0823246825

9781282698857

1282698850

9780823238361

0823238369

9780823229307

0823229300

OCLC:

647876420