Long recognized as one of the greatest medieval philosophical theologians, John Duns Scotus made his most innovative theoretical contributions in the area of metaphysics. A careful and detailed study of his argument for the existence of God and the theory of knowledge that makes this possible provides the most direct access to his basic ideas. ......
The theoretical underpinnings of ethics have been an intellectual driving force animating the pursuits of great scholars. The author inquires into the true nature of morality. Rejecting the results of action as the foundation of moral judgements, he denies that good or bad effects have any relevance in the moral evaluation of human behaviour.
Consciousness, Existence, and the Universal Design
The Great Convergence explores the existential foundations of human consciousness and the deep existential dimensions of reality, as well as their connection to the concept of "The Creator." Homam Al Safadi's illuminating study also examines the concept of "Consciousness" and how different levels of it - whether "human" or "non-human" - interact ......
A Contemporary Introduction to Thomistic Metaphysics provides the reader with an introductory presentation of key themes in Thomistic metaphysics. There are many such books, of course, but this one is, to use a phrase Michael Gorman has adopted, "analyticfacing," i.e., it presents things in dialogue with analytic philosophy. Sometimes that means ......
Conversations in Metaphysics: Ever Ancient, Ever New introduces students to metaphysics through a set of contemporary readings based on classical metaphysical texts, thinkers, and concepts. It challenges readers to consider and seek possible answers to questions of metaphysics relative to human knowledge and the nature of reality. Organized ......
This volume is a tribute to Fr. John F. Wippel. Following the philosophical order that Aquinas might have adopted ""had he chosen to write a Summa metaphysicae""--an order that Wippel himself lays out in his Metaphysical Thought of Thomas Aquinas--these essays unfold new research on some of the most intriguing topics in Aquinas's metaphysics, from ......
How Love, Imagination, and Integrity Formed the Modern World
From Natura to Nature traces the career of the medieval goddess Natura - Mother Nature - as she influenced the literature of the High Middle Ages up to the time of William Shakespeare and Edmund Spenser. After that, Natura's medieval aspect morphed into the mathematics of the early modern era. The book's subtitle includes the terms Love, ......
In From Metaphysics to Decision Making, Alexander Mitjashin argues that the laws of logic should be regarded as a paraphrase of an ontology - an understanding of "being" - whose components are distinct one from another, no matter how similar we may consider them. This approach allows us to remove antinomies without using any axiomatic method. The ......
Subversive Literature and the Imperative of Authenticity
Imposing Fictions aims to ameliorate the growing problem of what Martin Heidegger refers to as psychological and cultural "homelessness" by diagnosing the nature of the latter's current manifestations and offering readings of literature that seek to inspire the genuine, and genuinely subversive, alterity required by an authentic mode of being. ......
