Title: The wonder of the real; a sketch in basic philosophy,
Authors: Klauder, Francis J.
Publisher: Christopher Pub. House
Year: 1973
Subjects: Thomas, Contributions in ontology.; Scholasticism.
Contents: Meaning of metaphysics -- 1. The real -- What is being? -- How do we know being? -- Various kinds of intuition -- Being as abstract -- The starting point of Philosophy -- Quotations from St. Thomas Aquinas -- 2. Like and unlike -- The meaning of analogy -- Another meaning of being -- Absoluteness of being -- Scotus and Suarez -- Another division of being -- 3. The one and the many -- Inifinite act -- Importance of the "real distinction" -- Other considerations -- Summarizing statement -- A note of caution -- Possible being -- Other theories on the possibles -- Meaning of metaphysical physical, moral and logical -- Divisions of act and potency -- 4. The interrelated universe -- the mysteriousness of being -- The transcendentals of being -- Importance of relationship -- Further development -- The categories of Aristotle -- 5. Unity -- Ontological uniqueness of each thing -- Subsistence -- Subsistence as relational -- The subsistence fo the World -- Analogy of grace -- Other explanations of PERSON -- Theological application -- Quotations -- 6. Difference -- God, the infinite being, as other -- The nature of accidental relationship -- The factors in a relation -- Other philosophers -- Kinds of relations -- The Trinity and relation -- God- the center of all relationships -- The relationship of all things to God -- 7. Inidividuality, totality and interrelatedness -- Existentialism and Pantheism -- Importance of matter -- Matter under quantity as a principle of individuation -- The Space-Time continuum -- Proper and improper unity -- Distinction -- 8. The true -- Logical truth -- Qualities -- Truth, man and God -- Aquinas and Kant -- Augustine -- 9. The Good -- The Good as end -- The Good as analogous -- Activity or action in creatures -- Evil -- Existentialism -- 10. The wondrous ensemble -- The Christian Philosophy -- The World as a unit -- The end of man -- Incomparable destiny -- Appendix: A note on Lonergan -- The revival of Christian Philosophy.