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Book The Theory of Evil in the Metaphysics of St  Thomas and Its Contemporary Significance

Download or read book The Theory of Evil in the Metaphysics of St Thomas and Its Contemporary Significance written by Mary Edwin Sister 1922- Decoursey and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book The Theory of Evil in the Metaphysics of St  Thomas and Its Contemporary Significance

Download or read book The Theory of Evil in the Metaphysics of St Thomas and Its Contemporary Significance written by Mary Edwin de Coursey (suora.) and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The theory of evil in the metaphysics of St  Thomas and its contemporary significance

Download or read book The theory of evil in the metaphysics of St Thomas and its contemporary significance written by Mary Edwin de Coursey and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Theory of Evil in the Metaphysics of St  Thomas and Its Contemporary Significance  A Dissertation    of the Catholic University of America    by Sister Mary Edwin de Coursey

Download or read book The Theory of Evil in the Metaphysics of St Thomas and Its Contemporary Significance A Dissertation of the Catholic University of America by Sister Mary Edwin de Coursey written by Soeur Mary Edwin de Coursey and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Theory of Evil in the Metaphysics of Aquinas

Download or read book The Theory of Evil in the Metaphysics of Aquinas written by Mary Edwin DeCoursey and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2021-11-26 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is a metaphysical investigation, a study of the nature of evil, the modes in which it finds expression, and its relation to cause, as revealed in the metaphysics of Thomas Aquinas. Although the problem of evil is one of the most urgent and vital questions of our time and Thomistic philosophy indicates the most satisfactory answer, the apologetic possibilities of the subject have been subordinated to its metaphysical aspects. The most important is the treatment of goodness, for without the good, no study of evil is possible.

Book Thomas Aquinas on God and Evil

Download or read book Thomas Aquinas on God and Evil written by Brian Davies and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-24 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brian Davies offers the first in-depth study of Saint Thomas Aquinas's thoughts on God and evil, revealing that Aquinas's thinking about God and evil can be traced through his metaphysical philosophy, his thoughts on God and creation, and his writings about Christian revelation and the doctrines of the Trinity and the Incarnation. Davies first gives an introduction to Aquinas's philosophical theology, as well as a nuanced analysis of the ways in which Aquinas's writings have been considered over time. For hundreds of years scholars have argued that Aquinas's views on God and evil were original and different from those of his contemporaries. Davies shows that Aquinas's views were by modern standards very original, but that in their historical context they were more traditional than many scholars since have realized. Davies also provides insight into what we can learn from Aquinas's philosophy. Thomas Aquinas on God and Evil is a clear and engaging guide for anyone who struggles with the relation of God and theology to the problem of evil.

Book God and Evil

    Book Details:
  • Author : Herbert McCabe
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2010-02-26
  • ISBN : 1441121226
  • Pages : 225 pages

Download or read book God and Evil written by Herbert McCabe and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-02-26 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herbert McCabe was one of the most original and creative theologians of recent years. Continuum has published numerous volumes of unpublished typescripts left behind by him following his untimely death in 2001. This book is the sixth to appear. McCabe was deeply immersed in the philosophical theology of St Thomas Aquinas and was responsible in part for the notable revival of interest in the thought of Aquinas in our time. Here he tackles the problem of evil by focusing and commenting on what Aquinas said about it. What should we mean by words such as 'good', 'bad', 'being', 'cause', 'creation', and 'God'? These are McCabe's main questions. In seeking to answer them he demonstrates why it cannot be shown that evil disproves God's existence. He also explains how we can rightly think of evil in a world made by God. McCabe's approach to God and evil is refreshingly unconventional given much that has been said about it of late. Yet it is also very traditional. It will interest and inform anyone seriously interested in the topic.

Book The Deficient Cause of Moral Evil According to Thomas Aquinas

Download or read book The Deficient Cause of Moral Evil According to Thomas Aquinas written by Edward Cook and published by CRVP. This book was released on 1996 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Evil in Modern Thought

Download or read book Evil in Modern Thought written by Susan Neiman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether expressed in theological or secular terms, evil poses a problem about the world's intelligibility. It confronts philosophy with fundamental questions: Can there be meaning in a world where innocents suffer? Can belief in divine power or human progress survive a cataloging of evil? Is evil profound or banal? Neiman argues that these questions impelled modern philosophy. Traditional philosophers from Leibniz to Hegel sought to defend the Creator of a world containing evil. Inevitably, their efforts--combined with those of more literary figures like Pope, Voltaire, and the Marquis de Sade--eroded belief in God's benevolence, power, and relevance, until Nietzsche claimed He had been murdered. They also yielded the distinction between natural and moral evil that we now take for granted. Neiman turns to consider philosophy's response to the Holocaust as a final moral evil, concluding that two basic stances run through modern thought. One, from Rousseau to Arendt, insists that morality demands we make evil intelligible. The other, from Voltaire to Adorno, insists that morality demands that we don't.

Book The Metaphysics of Good and Evil

Download or read book The Metaphysics of Good and Evil written by David S. Oderberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Metaphysics of Good and Evil is the first, full-length contemporary defence, from the perspective of analytic philosophy, of the Scholastic theory of good and evil – the theory of Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, and most medieval and Thomistic philosophers. Goodness is analysed as obedience to nature. Evil is analysed as the privation of goodness. Goodness, surprisingly, is found in the non-living world, but in the living world it takes on a special character. The book analyses various kinds of goodness, showing how they fit into the Scholastic theory. The privation theory of evil is given its most comprehensive contemporary defence, including an account of truthmakers for truths of privation and an analysis of how causation by privation should be understood. In the end, all evil is deviance – a departure from the goodness prescribed by a thing’s essential nature. Key Features: Offers a comprehensive defence of a venerable metaphysical theory, conducted using the concepts and methods of analytic philosophy. Revives a much neglected approach to the question of good and evil in their most general nature. Shows how Aristotelian-Thomistic theory has more than historical relevance to a fundamental philosophical issue, but can be applied in a way that is both defensible and yet accessible to the modern philosopher. Provides what, for the Scholastic philosopher, is arguably the only solid metaphysical foundation for a separate treatment of the origins of morality.

Book Chesterton and Evil

Download or read book Chesterton and Evil written by Mark Knight and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Here, Knight crafts a portrait of Chesterton - the Fleet Street newspaperman who was able to entertain vast audiences as well as the thinker who could illuminate serious questions about justice, fairness, and faith, and who helped confront the new evils of the new century by creating works that gave vivid form to enduring truths about the good."--BOOK JACKET.

Book On Evil

    Book Details:
  • Author : Thomas Aquinas
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2003-03-20
  • ISBN : 9780195357929
  • Pages : 564 pages

Download or read book On Evil written by Thomas Aquinas and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-03-20 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The De Malo represents some of Aquinas' most mature thinking on goodness, badness, and human agency. In it he examines the full range of questions associated with evil: its origin, its nature, its relation to good, and its compatibility with the existence of an omnipotent, benevolent God. This edition offers Richard Regan's new, clear readable English translation, based on the Leonine Commission's authoritative edition of the Latin text. Brian Davies has provided an extensive introduction and notes. (Please note: this edition does not include the Latin text).

Book Evil and the Evidence for God

Download or read book Evil and the Evidence for God written by R. Douglas Geivett and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 1995-08 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to reconcile the existence of evil with the belief in a benevolent God has long posed a philosophical problem to the system of Christian theism. This work redress this difficulty in modern terms.

Book Thomas Aquinas on Moral Wrongdoing

Download or read book Thomas Aquinas on Moral Wrongdoing written by Colleen McCluskey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive examination of the moral psychology of wrongdoing from a major historical figure, Thomas Aquinas.