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Scholastic meditations /

"The studies gathered in this volume seek to do homage to the spirit of Scholasticism. They address key issues in that tradition - some from a historical point of view, others from a more substantive standpoint."--Jacket

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Rescher, Nicholas
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, 2005.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Studies in philosophy and the history of philosophy ; v. 44.
Subjects:
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Choice without preference : the problem of "Buridan's ass"
  • Nicholas of Cusa on the Koran : a fifteenth-century encounter with Islam
  • On learned ignorance and the limits of knowledge
  • Unanswerable questions and insolubilia
  • Omniscience and our understanding of God's knowledge
  • Issues of infinite regress
  • Being qua being
  • Nonexistents then and now
  • Thomism : past, present, and future
  • Respect for tradition and the Catholic philosopher today.