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"Seat of Wisdom is a comprehensive introduction to the philosophical principles developed in the Catholic tradition, especially as articulated in Thomism. Each of the first principles, as expressed in the transcendental properties, are then analyzed as the basis of the major philosophical disci...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jacobs, James M. (Seminarian) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : The Catholic University of America Press, [2022]
Temas:
Catholic Church and philosophy.
Église catholique et philosophie.
PHILOSOPHY / Religious
Catholic Church and philosophy
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Catholicism and Philosophy
  • Philosophy: The Handmaid to Theology
  • Three Uses of Philosophy in Theology
  • Characteristics of a Catholic Philosophy
  • Outline of the Book
  • Concluding Apologetic Postscript
  • Further Reading
  • Chapter 1: Wisdom and Faith: The Relation between Reason and Revelation
  • The Problem
  • What Is Philosophy?
  • The Necessary Uselessness of Philosophy
  • First Principles
  • Four Implications of First Principles
  • Philosophy and Faith
  • What Is Faith?
  • Philosophy Overcomes the Reductionism of Scientism and Fideism
  • Further Reading
  • Part I: What Is
  • Chapter 2: The Origins of the Perennial Philosophy
  • The Birth of Philosophy
  • The Pre-Socratics (ca. 600 BC to ca. 400 BC)
  • The Socratic Revolution
  • Plato: The Discovery of Transcendent Truth
  • Aristotle: The Master of Those Who Know
  • Later Philosophical Developments
  • The Rejection of the Perennial Philosophy
  • Further Reading
  • Chapter 3: The One and the Many: The Search for Being in Metaphysics
  • The Problem: Knowing Reality behind Appearance
  • Reductive Extremes
  • The Act of Existence
  • The Transcendental Properties of Being
  • The Divisions of Being
  • The Analogy of Being
  • The Ladder of Being
  • Further Reading
  • Chapter 4: What Is Truth? Epistemology and the Extent of Knowledge
  • The Problem: What Can Be Known?
  • The Rejection of Knowledge: Relativism and Skepticism
  • Framing the Problem: Plato's Critique of Knowing as Looking
  • Reductive Extremes
  • Thomistic Realism: Necessity in the Contingent
  • Further Reading
  • Chapter 5: What Is Man That Thou Art Mindful of Him? Humans as Persons
  • The Problem: Man, between the Beasts and the Angels
  • The Platonic Foundations
  • Reductive Extremes
  • Hylomorphism and the Unity of Man
  • Significant Implications of Human Nature
  • Personalism
  • Further Reading
  • Part II: What Ought to Be
  • Chapter 6: That Which All Desire: Goodness as the Principle of Human Acts
  • The Problem: What Must I Do?
  • Reductive Extremes
  • Virtue Ethics: Being a Better Person
  • The Natural Law
  • The Good of Making: Beauty and Art
  • Further Reading
  • Chapter 7: The Person and the Common Good: Political Philosophy
  • The Problem: Rendering unto Caesar What Is Caesar's
  • Reductive Extremes
  • Community: The Temporal and the Eternal Ends of a Person
  • Further Reading
  • Part III: Ever Shall Be
  • Chapter 8: God: The Alpha and the Omega
  • The Problem: The Hidden God
  • Reductive Extremes
  • "I Am Who Am" (Ex 3:14)
  • The Master Both-And: Primary and Secondary Cause
  • Miracles and Prayer
  • Further Reading
  • Chapter 9: Evil: The Perennial Objection to the Perennial Philosophy
  • How to Think about Privations
  • Metaphysical Background: Being and God
  • Being as Good
  • The Presence of Evil in Creation
  • God and Evil
  • Conclusion: Piety to Being
  • Further Reading
  • Appendices

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