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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 |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | 1st ed. |
| Publication Info | New York : Fordham University Press, 2009. |
| Description | vii, 271 pages ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| 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 note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-259) and indexes. |
| LCCN | 2008047374 |
| ISBN | 9780823229284 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0823229289 (cloth : alk. paper) |