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Author: Ceslaus Velecky
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-10-26
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 0521029147
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPaperback reissue of one volume of the English Dominicans' Latin/English edition of Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologiae.
Author: Hasik
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Published: 2006-06-01
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ISBN-13: 9780070618503
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James Hasik
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Published: 2010-06-11
Total Pages: 418
ISBN-13: 0071740309
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNew features for the more than 200,000 people who take the GMAT annually. McGraw-Hill's GMAT includes new features to help students get their desired score. They will learn how to master the GMAT through practice with questions just like those on the real exam. Two complete interactive practice tests at MHPracticePlus.com and four tests in the book. A Welcome section including "How to Use This Book," "GMAT Study Plan," and more. New information for the thousands of GMAT takers who are outside the United States. James Hasik (Austin, TX) is a GMAT test preparation instructor and tutor. Stacey Rudnick (Austin, TX) is the director for MBA Career Services at the University of Texas at Austin. Ryan Hackney (Austin, TX) is a writer specializing in education.
Author: Gaven Kerr OP
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2015-02-25
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 0190266384
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGaven Kerr provides the first book-length study of St. Thomas Aquinas's much neglected proof for the existence of God in De Ente et Essentia Chapter 4. He offers a contemporary presentation, interpretation, and defense of this proof, beginning with an account of the metaphysical principles used by Aquinas and then describing how they are employed within the proof to establish the existence of God. Along the way, Kerr engages contemporary authors who have addressed Aquinas's or similar reasoning. The proof developed in the De Ente is, on Kerr's reading, independent of many of the other proofs in Aquinas's corpus and resistant to the traditional classificatory schemes of proofs of God. By applying a historical and hermeneutical awareness of the philosophical issues presented by Aquinas's thought and evaluating such philosophical issues with analytical precision, Kerr is able to move through the proof and evaluate what Aquinas is saying, and whether what he is saying is true. By means of an analysis of one of Aquinas's earliest proofs, Kerr highlights a foundational argument that is present throughout the much more commonly studied Thomistic writings, and brings it to bear within the context of analytical philosophy, showing its relevance to the contemporary reader.
Author: LearningExpress (Organization)
Publisher: Learning Express (NY)
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781576859209
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive study guide divided into four distinct sections, each representing a section of the official GMAT.
Author: Anthony Kenny
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 2002-09-26
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780191543975
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnthony Kenny offers a critical examination of a central metaphysical doctrine of Thomas Aquinas, the greatest of the medieval philosophers. Aquinas's account of being is famous and influential: but Kenny argues that it in fact suffers from systematic confusion. Because of the centrality of the doctrine, this has implications for other parts of Aquinas's philosophical system: in particular, Kenny shows that the idea that God is pure being is a hindrance, not a help, to Aquinas's natural theology. Kenny's clear and incisive study, drawing on the scholastic as well as the analytic tradition, dispels the confusion and offers philosophers and theologians a guide through the labyrinth of Aquinas's ontology.
Author: Peter Weigel
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9783039107308
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPeter Weigel offers an in-depth examination of what divine simplicity means for Aquinas and how he argues for its claims. Simplicity and other divine predicates are analysed within the larger metaphysical and semantic framework surrounding Aquinas' philosophy of God.
Author: James E. Dolezal
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2011-11-09
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 1621891097
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe doctrine of divine simplicity has long played a crucial role in Western Christianity's understanding of God. It claimed that by denying that God is composed of parts Christians are able to account for his absolute self-sufficiency and his ultimate sufficiency as the absolute Creator of the world. If God were a composite being then something other than the Godhead itself would be required to explain or account for God. If this were the case then God would not be most absolute and would not be able to adequately know or account for himself without reference to something other than himself. This book develops these arguments by examining the implications of divine simplicity for God's existence, attributes, knowledge, and will. Along the way there is extensive interaction with older writers, such as Thomas Aquinas and the Reformed scholastics, as well as more recent philosophers and theologians. An attempt is made to answer some of the currently popular criticisms of divine simplicity and to reassert the vital importance of continuing to confess that God is without parts, even in the modern philosophical-theological milieu.
Author: Ronald H. Nash
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 0310451418
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book brings together for the general reader the intense and wide-ranging discussions now taking place among philosophers on the attributes of God. Because of its clear explanations, numerous examples, brevity, and breadth, "The Concept of God" can be an important supplemental text to theology classes and philosophy or religion classes. *Lightning Print On Demand Title
Author: W.F. Vallicella
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-04-17
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9401705887
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe heart of philosophy is metaphysics, and at the heart of the heart lie two questions about existence. What is it for any contingent thing to exist? Why does any contingent thing exist? Call these the nature question and the ground question, respectively. The first concerns the nature of the existence of the contingent existent; the second concerns the ground of the contingent existent. Both questions are ancient, and yet perennial in their appeal; both have presided over the burial of so many of their would-be undertakers that it is a good induction that they will continue to do so. For some time now, the preferred style in addressing such questions has been deflationary when it has not been eliminativist. Ask Willard Quine what existence is, and you will hear that "Existence is what existential quantification expresses. "! Ask Bertrand Russell what it is for an individual to exist, and he will tell you that an individual can no more exist than it can be numerous: there 2 just is no such thing as the existence of individuals. And of course Russell's eliminativist answer implies that one cannot even ask, on pain of succumbing to the fallacy of complex question, why any contingent individual exists: if no individual exists, there can be no question why any individual exists. Not to mention Russell's modal corollary: 'contingent' and 'necessary' can only be said de dicto (of propositions) and not de re (of things).
