Scholastic Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction
Paperback 290 pages English May 31, 2014
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Scholastic Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction provides an overview of Scholastic approaches to causation, substance, essence, modality, identity, persistence, teleology, and other issues in fundamental metaphysics. The book interacts heavily with the literature on these issues in contemporary analytic metaphysics, so as to facilitate the analytic reader's understanding of Scholastic ideas and the Scholastic reader's understanding of contemporary analytic philosophy. The Aristotelian theory of actuality and potentiality provides the organizing theme, and the crucial dependence of Scholastic metaphysics on this theory is demonstrated. The book is written from a Thomistic point of view, but Scotist and Suarezian positions are treated as well where they diverge from the Thomistic position. Edward Feser is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Pasadena City College in Pasadena, California, USA. His most recent books include Aquinas and The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism, and the edited volume Aristotle on Method and Metaphysics.
- Author:
- Edward Feser
- Publisher:
- EDITIONES SCHOLASTICAE
- Publication Date:
- May 31, 2014
- Number of pages:
- 290 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 3868385444
- ISBN-13:
- 9783868385441