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Studia Gilsoniana, 2015 The article analyzes the dispute between Étienne Gilson and Maurice Blondel. Their dispute is quite notorious and, even though all the reasons behind it are unknown, casts a shadow on the French philosophy of Christian inspiration in the last century ...
Didier Rance
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Étienne Gilson, Duns Scotus, and Actual Existence: Weighing the Charge of ‘Essentialism’ [PDF]
Studia Gilsoniana, 2017 Étienne Gilson juxtaposes what he calls Aquinas’s “existentialism” to what he calls Scotus’s “essentialism.” For Gilson, “existentialism” is philosophical truth, the only view compatible with an authentically Christian metaphysic, while “essentialism” is
Andrew C. Helms
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Studia Gilsoniana, 2014 Gilson’s early admiration for Pascal as a literary figure evolved into a deep appreciation of him as a Christian philosopher. Pascal showed Gilson that one could expect much more of philosophy than the idealism of René Descartes and Léon Brunschvicg so ...
Richard J. Fafara
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Gilson as Christian Humanist [PDF]
Studia Gilsoniana, 2012 The author suggests that the intellectual life of Étienne Gilson constituted a new humanism, that Gilson’s scholarly work was part of a new renaissance, that a new humanism that Gilson thought is demanded by the precarious civilizational crisis of the ...
Peter A. Redpath
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Gilson, Darwin, and Intelligent Design [PDF]
Studia Gilsoniana, 2015 The article starts with stating the fact that today there is an increasing recognition of difficulties with Darwinism accompanied by vigorous responses on the part of Darwin’s defenders; among the instances of challenge to the dominant theory, one can ...
Desmond J. FitzGerald
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Étienne Gilson in The Universal Encyclopedia of Philosophy [PDF]
Studia Gilsoniana, 2018 The article aims at presenting the life and work of Étienne Gilson (1884–1978)—a historian of philosophy, medievalist, renewer of the scholastic tradition, proponent of a return to the original doctrine of St. Thomas Aquinas, and philosopher.
Jan Sochoń
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The Importance of Gilson [PDF]
Studia Gilsoniana, 2012 The author aims at answering why preserving, reading, and understanding the work of Étienne Gilson is crucial for the Western civilization if one wishes to be able to understand precisely the problems that are besetting the West and how one can best ...
Peter A. Redpath
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Gilson on Philosophy and Civilization [PDF]
Studia Gilsoniana, 2019 In his essay “The Role of Philosophy in the History of Civilization” presented at the 6th International Philosophical Congress at Harvard in 1926, Gilson outlined three general trends among historians of philosophy.
Richard J. Fafara
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Evaluating the Metaphysical Realism of Étienne Gilson [PDF]
Studia Gilsoniana, 2015 While there is an absence of treatises devoted to the question of ens ut primum cognitum, there is no shortage of brief and implicit treatments; indeed, nearly every Thomist of the past seven centuries seems to have at least something to say about the ...
Brian Kemple
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Étienne Gilson w Charlottesville / Étienne Gilson in Charlottesville [PDF]
Studia Gilsoniana, 2015 Gilson became familiar with American academic life and language during the summer of 1926 when he first visited the United States and taught two summer courses at the University of Virginia.
Richard Fafara
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