Download or read book The Mirror of Language Revised Edition written by Marcia L. Colish and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early Christianity faced the problem of the human word versus Christ the Word. Could language accurately describe spiritual reality? The Mirror of Language brilliantly traces the development of one prominent theory of signs from Augustine through Anselm of Canterbury, Thomas Aquinas, and Dante. Their shared epistemology validated human language as an authentic but limited index of preexistent reality, both material and spiritual. This sign theory could thereby account for the ways men receive, know, and transmit religious knowledge, always mediated through faith. Marcia L. Colish demonstrates how the three theologians used different branches of the medieval trivium to express a common sign theory: Augustine stressed rhetoric, Anselm shifted to grammar (including grammatical proofs of God's existence), and Thomas Aquinas stressed dialectic. Dante, the one poet included in this study, used the Augustinian sign theory to develop a Christian poetics that culminates in the Divine Comedy. The author points out not only the commonality but also the sharp contrasts between these writers and shows the relation between their sign theories and the intellectual ferment of the times. When first published in 1968, The Mirror of Language was recognized as a pathfinding study. This completely revised edition incorporates the scholarship of the intervening years and reflects the refinements of the author's thought. Greater prominence is given to the role of Stoicism, and sharper attention is paid to some of the thinkers and movements surrounding the major thinkers treated. Concerns of semiotics, philosophy, and literary criticism are elucidated further. The original thesis, still controversial, is now even wider ranging and more salient to current intellectual debate.

Download or read book Il problema della verit in S Tommaso d Aquino written by Tommaso d'Aquino (santo.) and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Teleologies in Husserlian Phenomenology written by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The following bibliography, arranged chronologically, permits the reader to follow the development of phenomenological studies in Italy in parallel with other, contemporary, cultural currents. From this list it can be seen that knowledge of Hussed's work begins in 1923 with the studies of A. Banfi. Phenomenology, however, did not immediately receive a warm welcome. It contrasted with the then dominant neo-idealism (as has been made clear by G. De Ruggiero), but for this very reason it also found adherents among the opponents of idealism. These were either distant heirs of positivism, who accepted Hussed on account of his scientific approach and rigor, or Christian oriented thinkers, who, following an initial period of diffidence toward the antimetaphysical attitude of phenomenological analysis, gradually began to use this method as an antiidealist instrument - even though the problem remained of Hussed's own transcendental idealism and the value to be attributed to it. Despite the difficulties encountered on the way, the numerous studies carried out in Italy prior to Wodd War II make it clear that the better known philosophers who have left a mark on Italian culture already had begun to take a discreet interest in phenomenology.

Download or read book New Perspectives on Francisco de Vitoria written by José María Beneyto and published by Fundación Univ. San Pablo. This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Revival of Scholastic Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century written by Joseph Louis Perrier and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Changing Profile of the Natural Law written by Michael Bertram Crowe and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has more than once been observed that funeral orations for the natural law have always been premature. ! The implication that the concept has a continuing vitality, giving the lie to the prophets of its doom, is justification for yet another book on a subject, now as much as ever in the two and a half millenia of its history a matter of controversy. The history of the natural law has often been written -or at least the history of the concept in the Western European Greco 2 Roman tradition. This study does not claim to be a history, although its method is primarily historical and its subject is an idea that, more perhaps than most, has been shaped by its history. The omissions, Hobbes, Vico, Kant, Hegel for example, amply demonstrate that this is not a systematic history. On the other hand it accepts that In an orderly preparation for the study of natural law the most impor tant step would be to list the main modifications undergone by the notion of natural law as a result of doctrinal and historical cir cumstances? 1 Bergbohm, Jurisprudenz und Rechtsphilosophie, cited in a. M. Manser, Vas Natu"echt in Thomistischer Beleuchtung, p. 1; cf. A. P. d'Entreves, Natural Law, p. 13: "It was declared dead, never to rise again from its ashes. Yet natural law has survived and still calls for discussion. " 2 A.

Download or read book Il problema della verit in S Tommaso d Aquino written by Siro Contri and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book L anima nell antropologia di S Tommaso d Aquino written by Abelardo Lobato and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Catholic Theology After Kierkegaard written by Joshua Furnal and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although he is not always recognized as such, Soren Kierkegaard has been an important ally for Catholic theologians in the early twentieth century. Moreover, understanding this relationship and its origins offers valuable resources and insights to contemporary Catholic theology. Of course, there are some negative preconceptions to overcome. Historically, some Catholic readers have been suspicious of Kierkegaard, viewing him as an irrational Protestant irreconcilably at odds with Catholic thought. Nevertheless, the favorable mention of Kierkegaard in John Paul II's Fides et Ratio is an indication that Kierkegaard's writings are not so easily dismissed. Catholic Theology after Kierkegaard investigates the writings of emblematic Catholic thinkers in the twentieth century to assess their substantial engagement with Kierkegaard's writings. Joshua Furnal argues that Kierkegaard's writings have stimulated reform and renewal in twentieth-century Catholic theology, and should continue to do so today. To demonstrate Kierkegaard's relevance in pre-conciliar Catholic theology, Furnal examines the wider evidence of a Catholic reception of Kierkegaard in the early twentieth century--looking specifically at influential figures like Theodor Haecker, Romano Guardini, Erich Przywara, and other Roman Catholic thinkers that are typically associated with the ressourcement movement. In particular, Furnal focuses upon the writings of Henri de Lubac, Hans Urs von Balthasar, and the Italian Thomist, Cornelio Fabro as representative entry points.

Download or read book The Presence of Duns Scotus in the Thought of Edith Stein written by Francesco Alfieri and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-02-23 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the phenomenological anthropology of Edith Stein. It specifically focuses on the question which Stein addressed in her work Finite and Eternal Being: What is the foundational principle that makes the individual unique and unrepeatable within the human species? Traditional analyses of Edith Stein’s writings have tended to frame her views on this issue as being influenced by Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas, while neglecting her interest in the lesser-known figure of Duns Scotus. Yet, as this book shows, with regard to the question of individuality, Stein was critical of Aquinas’ approach, finding that of Duns Scotus to be more convincing. In order to get to the heart of Stein’s readings of Duns Scotus, this book looks at her published writings and her personal correspondence, in addition to conducting a meticulous analysis of the original codexes on which her sources were based. Written with diligence and flair, the book critically evaluates the authenticity of Stein’s sources and shows how the position of Scotus himself evolved. It highlights the originality of Stein’s contribution, which was to rediscover the relevance of Mediaeval scholastic thought and reinterpret it in the language of the Phenomenological school founded by Edmund Husserl.

Download or read book Saint Thomas Aquinas The person and his work written by Jean-Pierre Torrell and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highly acclaimed as the most reliable, thorough, and accessible introduction to Thomas Aquinas, this first volume in Jean-Pierre Torrell's set of books on the great Dominican theologian has been revised to include a new appendix. The appendix consists of additions to the text, the catalog of Aquinas's works, and the chronology. Each item in the appendix is called out in the original part of the book with an asterisk in the margin. "This is the introduction to Thomas: presenting all the known facts of his life and work, tracing the themes of his writing out of his juvenilia, and following the influence of his thought in the years immediately after his death."--First Things "The most up-to-date biography available."--Choice

Download or read book Unio Thomistica written by and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book San Tommaso written by Gilbert Keith Chesterton and published by Edizioni Lindau. This book was released on 2016-10-20T00:00:00+02:00 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: San Tommaso d’Aquino (1225-1274) è uno dei pilastri del pensiero cristiano. La sua opera raccorda e armonizza il messaggio evangelico e la filosofia classica, la fede e la ragione. Eppure, scrive Chesterton, «questo grande personaggio meriterebbe di essere più conosciuto». E proprio intorno alla sua personalità ruota questa celebre biografia, a giudizio di molti tomisti, in primis Jacques Maritain e Anton C. Pegis, la migliore. Chesterton rievoca con la consueta ironia e sagacia le principali tappe della vita di Tommaso: la decisione giovanile di diventare frate mendicante del nuovo ordine fondato dallo spagnolo Domenico, strenuamente combattuta dalla sua ricca e potente famiglia che avrebbe voluto per lui ben altri onori; gli studi a Colonia sotto la guida sapiente di Alberto Magno – il filosofo e teologo tedesco che cercò di conciliare il cristianesimo con l’aristotelismo e che tanto lo influenzò –; l’approdo a Parigi e all’insegnamento universitario; infine il ritorno in Italia, la stesura della Summa Theologiae e la morte nell’abbazia cistercense di Fossanova, nei pressi di Latina. Come scrive Monsignor Luigi Negri nell’introduzione al volume: «All’inizio del terzo millennio ci troviamo in una situazione stranamente analoga a quella in cui san Tommaso visse la sua grande esperienza, nel senso che tanta tradizione cattolica è sentita dal popolo cattolico come una difficoltà, come un peso, come un condizionamento, e la tentazione di fuga verso compromessi con le ideologie secolari è più forte che mai. In questo quadro Tommaso ha ancora molto da dire alla Chiesa di oggi, non solo per le sue soluzioni di carattere strettamente filosofico ma soprattutto per lo spirito che ha incarnato, quello perennemente giovane della Chiesa, per il quale la fede va proposta nella sua radicale essenzialità e nella sua capacità di prendersi carico dell’esistenza concreta degli uomini e della società».

Download or read book Il problema della verit in S Tommaso d Aquino written by Saint Thomas (Aquinas) and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book San Tommaso written by Corriere della Sera and published by Corriere della Sera. This book was released on 2014-05-29T00:00:00+02:00 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Se Agostino riuscì a conciliare la filosofia di Platone con il cristianesimo, ottocento anni più tardi Tommaso d’Aquino, domenicano, agì in maniera simile con quella di Aristotele, appena riscoperto in Occidente nel secolo XIII dopo oltre millecinquecento anni di oblio. E non senza problemi e polemiche, in seno alla stessa Chiesa. Trovò la strada per raggiungere un equilibrio tra fede e ragione, due entità viste non più in modo conflittuale; sostenne che la conoscenza fosse essenziale per raggiungere la fede e che quest’ultima fosse anche un atto intellettivo. Con Tommaso nacque l’alta Scolastica, che fu avversata dalla dottrina francescana, secondo la quale era la fede il giudice di ultima istanza: due visioni che ancora oggi si riflettono sulle correnti teologiche del pensiero cristiano.

Download or read book Philosophic Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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