This book, written by well-known students of Étienne Gilson and especially dedicated to Armand A. Maurer, helps inaugurate a long-overdue special series in philosophy honoring Gilson’s legendary scholarship. It presents wide-ranging expositions of Thomist realism in the tradition of Gilsonian humanism covering themes related to philosophy in general, historical method, aesthetics, metaphysics, epistemology, and politics.
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Etienne Gilson is doubtlessly one of the most celebrated historians of philosophy. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Thomas Aquinas, New York, San Francisco, Henri Gouhier, University Press, Middle Ages, Jacques Maritain, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Etienne Gilson, United Nations, Charles Scribner's Sons, World War, John Paul, Nicomachean Ethics, Notre Dame, Degrees of Knowledge, Malebranche's Christian, Richards Lecture, Tractatus de Signis, University of Toronto, Creative Evolution, Leo Strauss, William James, John of Salisbury, United States New!
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Etienne Gilson is doubtlessly one of the most celebrated historians of philosophy. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
enlightening gloss, phenomenal manifestation, historiographical method, philosophical experience, universal doubt, critical realism Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Thomas Aquinas, New York, San Francisco, Henri Gouhier, University Press, Middle Ages, Jacques Maritain, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Etienne Gilson, United Nations, Charles Scribner's Sons, World War, John Paul, Nicomachean Ethics, Notre Dame, Degrees of Knowledge, Malebranche's Christian, Richards Lecture, Tractatus de Signis, University of Toronto, Creative Evolution, Leo Strauss, William James, John of Salisbury, United States New!
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- The Unity of Philosophical Experience by Etienne Gilson on 7 pages
- Creative Evolution by Henri Louis Bergson on 7 pages
- The Degrees of Knowledge (The Collected Works of Jacques Maritain, Vol. 7) by Jacques Maritain on 5 pages
- On Being and Essence by Thomas Aquinas on 5 pages
- Bergsonian Philosophy and Thomism by Jacques Maritain on 4 pages
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- What are we to Understand Gracia to Mean?: Realist Challenges to Metaphysical Neutralism (Value Inquiry Book Series 177) by Robert A. Delfino in Back Matter
- The Curve of the Sacred: An Exploration of Human Spirituality (Value Inquiry Book Series 178) by Constantin V. Ponomareff; Kenneth A. Bryson in Back Matter
- Problems for Democracy (Value Inquiry Book S.) by Mary Lenzi (Editor) John Kultgen (Editor) in Back Matter
- The New Science of Axiological Psychology (Value Inquiry Book 169) (Value Inquiry Book S.) by Leon Pomeroy in Back Matter
- Deconstruction and Reconstruction: The Central European Pragmatist Forum, Vol. 2 (Value Inquiry Book Series 156) by John Ryder in Back Matter
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