For 50 years the philosophers of the Anglo-Saxon analytic tradition (E. Anscombre, P. Geach, A. Kenny, P. Foot) have tried to follow the Thomas Aquinas School which they use as a source to surpass the Cartesian Epistemology and to develop the virtue ...
Daniel Alejandro Pérez Chamorro.
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On the Foundational Compatibility of Phenomenology and Thomism [PDF]
Jacques Maritain criticized Husserl’s phenomenological method—the ἔποχή—as being incompatible with the realism of St. Thomas Aquinas. Maritain equated phenomenology with idealism, holding that it universally negates the existence of known objects as ...
Daniel C. Wagner
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The Flexibility of Thomistic Metaphysical Principles: Byzantine Thomists, Personalist Thomists, and Jacques Maritain [PDF]
Thomistic metaphysics has been challenged on the grounds that its principles are inconsistent with our experiences of divine action and of our own subjectivity.
Mark K. Spencer
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What Is Phenomenological Thomism? Its Principles and an Application: The Anthropological Square
In the debates over various kinds and traditions of Thomism, the term “Phenomenological Thomism” does not appear often. However, once uttered, it is instantly linked to two figures: Edith Stein and Karol Wojtyła.
Jadwiga Helena Guerrero van der Meijden
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The Compatibility of Evolution and Thomistic Metaphysics: A Reply to Dennis F. Polis [PDF]
In this article the author discusses Dennis F. Polis’ defense of the compatibility of biological evolution and Thomistic metaphysics. Some of Polis’ methodological and metaphysical arguments are examined and it is explained why they are unfaithful to the
Robert A. Delfino
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Text, Method, or Goal? On What Really Matters in Biblical Thomism
This article presents the history and main assumptions of biblical Thomism, which began with an attempt to restore interest in the biblical commentaries of Thomas Aquinas, but has managed to develop its own methodological procedure.
Piotr Roszak
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The Perennial Wisdom of St. Thomas Aquinas and the Great Books Tradition [PDF]
In this article I argue for the pedagogical complementarity of the perennial wisdom of St. Thomas and Mortimer Adler’s dialectical method of the Great Books, where the Great Books highlight the ministerial function of the imagination to the will and ...
Heather M. Erb
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Polish realistic philosophy of the twentieth century and its educational implications
Polish Thomism has developed an original philosophy of education and pedagogy (Stefan Kunowski, Jacek Woroniecki, Feliks Wojciech Bednarski, Mieczysław Gogacz and others), which correspond to particular varieties of this philosophy.
Mikołaj Krasnodębski
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Karol Wojtyła: A Thomist or a Phenomenologist? [PDF]
The author seeks to answer the question of whether Karol Wojtyła was a Thomist or a phenomenologist. He lists four possible answers: 1) Wojtyła was a Thomist; 2) Wojtyła was a phenomenologist; 3) Wojtyła was both a Thomist and a phenomenologist, meaning ...
Piotr Jaroszyński
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With a Diamond in His Shoe: Reflections on Jorge J. E. Gracia’s Quest for Self-Perfection [PDF]
Jorge J. E. Gracia, was born in Cuba in 1942. At age 19, he escaped Cuba and arrived in the United States. In 2019, 58 years later, in a nation which, prior to his arrival in North America, had no major Latino cultural presence in higher education and ...
Peter A. Redpath
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