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

Author/creator Clarke, W. Norris (William Norris), 1915-2008
Format Book and Print
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Fordham University Press, 2009.
Descriptionvii, 271 pages ; 24 cm
Subject(s)
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 233-259) and indexes.
LCCN 2008047374
ISBN9780823229284 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0823229289 (cloth : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks B765.T54 C525 2009 ✔ Available Place Hold