Omne Agens Agit Sibi Simile
Subtitle: A "Repetition" of Scholastic Metaphysics
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Published: August 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9789061867777
Subjects: Metaphysics & ontology; Metaphysics; Philosophy
First sentence: "Il faut etudier les philosophes en philosophe, se servir de l'histoire et de la lexicographie, non point s'y asservir." This conviction, voiced by one of the foremost students of Thomistic philosophy of our century, echoes a famous dictum from Aquinas's commentary on Aristotle's On the Heavens (Book I, cap. 10, lect. 22): "Studium philosophiae non est ad hoc quod sciatur quid homines senserint, sed qualiter se habeat veritas rerum" - the study of philosophy is not about getting to know what some people might have deemed to be the case, but what the truth of things is... Aquinas's dictum epitomizes one of the most important methodological presuppositions of my own project.