A Critical Inquiry Into Etienne Gilson's The Unity of Philosophical Experience
Author: Stephen Bernard Levensohn
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Published: 1960
Total Pages: 178
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Author: Stephen Bernard Levensohn
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Published: 1960
Total Pages: 178
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Published: 1954
Total Pages: 339
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Published: 1946
Total Pages: 331
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Published: 1941
Total Pages: 331
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Publisher: Ignatius Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780898707489
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Lectures ... given at Harvard University in the first half of the academic year 1936-37"--Foreword.
Author: Paul D. Janz
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-05-06
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 1139451723
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 2004 book reconfigures the basic problem of Christian thinking - 'How can human discourse refer meaningfully to a transcendent God?' - as a twofold demand for integrity: integrity of reason and integrity of transcendence. Centring around a provocative yet penetratingly faithful re-reading of Kant's empirical realism, and drawing on an impelling confluence of contemporary thinkers (including MacKinnon, Bonhoeffer, Marion, Putnam, Nagel) Paul D. Janz argues that theology's 'referent' must be located within present empirical reality. Rigorously reasoned yet refreshingly accessible throughout, this book provides an important, attentively informed alternative to the growing trends toward obscurantism, radicalization and anti-reason in many recent assessments of theological cognition, while remaining equally alert to the hazards of traditional metaphysics. In the book's culmination, epistemology and Christology converge around problems of noetic authority and orthodoxy with a kind of innovation, depth and straightforwardness that readers of theology at all levels of philosophical acquaintance will find illuminating.
Author: Étienne Gilson
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Published: 1937
Total Pages: 331
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Published: 1959
Total Pages: 64
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Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2011-10-27
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 1441195955
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Etienne Gilson
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 1586171690
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDarwin's theory of evolution remains controversial, even though most scientists, philosophers, and even theologians accept it, in some form, as an explanation for the variety of organisms. The controversy erupts when the theory is used to try to explain everything, including every aspect of human life, and to deny the role of a Creator or a purpose to life. The overreaching of many scientists into matters beyond the self-imposed limits of scientific method is perhaps explained in part by the loss of two important ideas in modern thinking--final causality or purpose, and formal causality. Scientists understandably bracket the idea out of their scientific thinking because they seek explanations on the level of material and efficient causes only. Yet many of them wrongly conclude from their selective study of the world that final and formal causes do not exist at all and that they have no place in the rational study of life. Likewise, many erroneously assume that philosophy cannot draw upon scientific findings, in light of final and formal causality, to better understand the world and man. The great philosopher and historian of philosophy, Etienne Gilson, sets out to show that final causality or purposiveness and formal causality are principles for those who think hard and carefully about the world, including the world of biology. Gilson insists that a completely rational understanding of organisms and biological systems requires the philosophical notion of teleology, the idea that certain kinds of things exist and have ends or purposes the fulfillment of which are linked to their natures--in other words, formal and final causes. His approach relies on philosophical reflection on the facts of science, not upon theology or an appeal to religious authorities such as the Church or the Bible.