The chief aims of Thomas Aquinas on the Immateriality of the Human In-tellect are to provide a comprehensive interpretation of Aquinas's oft-repeated claim that the human intellect is immaterial, and to assess his arguments on behalf of this claim. Adam Wood argues that Aquinas's claim refers primarily to the mode in which the human intellect has ......
Even prior to his death on 15 November 1280, the Dominican master Albert of Lauingen was legendary on account of his erudition. He was widely recognized for the depth and breadth of his learning in the philo-sophical disciplines as well as in the study of God, earning him the titles Doctor universalis and Doctor expertus. Moreover, his ......
The Hibernensis is the longest and most comprehensive canon-law text to have circulated in Carolingian Europe. Compiled in Ireland in the late seventh or early eight century, it exerted a strong and long-lasting influence on the development of European canon law. The present edition offers-for the first time-a complete text of the Hibernensis ......
The Hibernensis is the longest and most comprehensive canon-law text to have circulated in Carolingian Europe. Compiled in Ireland in the late seventh or early eight century, it exerted a strong and long-lasting influence on the development of European canon law. The present edition offers-for the first time-a complete text of the Hibernensis ......
In contemporary philosophy the status, indeed the very viability of metaphysics is a much contested issue. The reflections offered here ex-plore diverse aspects of this contested status and offer a defense of meta-physics. In other works, perhaps most fully in Being and the Between, William Desmond has tried to develop what he calls a ......
What are values? How do we come to know them? How are values re-lated to morality? How is it possible to act against one?s better knowl-edge? How can one become blind to values? How important is requit-ed love for human happiness? These are just some of the questions to which Dietrich von Hildebrand offers profound and original responses. He ......
While there has been agreement among followers of Aquinas that being insofar as it is being (being qua being) is the subject of metaphysics, there is not agreement on how this being qua being is to be understood, nor on how we come to know the being that is the object of metaphysical investigation. The topic of what being is, as the object of the ......
From Human Dignity to Natural Law shows how the whole of the natural law, as understood in the Aristotelian Thomistic tradition, is contained implicitly in human dignity. Human dignity means existing for one's own good (the common good as well as one's individual good), and not as a mere means to an alien good. But what is the true human good? ......
Contemporary society very often asks of individuals and/or corporate entities that they perform actions connected in some way with the im-moral actions of other individuals or entities. Typically, in the attempt to determine what would be unacceptable cooperation with such immoral actions, Christian scholars and authorities refer to the ......
