Aquinas and Sartre
Subtitle: on freedom, personal identity, and the possibility of happiness
By: Stephen Wang.
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780813215761
Subjects: Thomas, -- Aquinas, Saint, -- 1225?-1274; Sartre, Jean-Paul, -- 1905-1980; Liberty; Identity (Psychology); Happiness
Description: "Thomas Aquinas and Jean-Paul Sartre are usually identified with completely different philosophical traditions: intellectualism and voluntarism. In this original study, [author] shows, instead, that there are some profound similarities in their understanding of freedom and human identity."--Book jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Historical introduction; title: Human being; title: Identity and human incompletion in Sartre; title: Identity and human incompletion in Aquinas; title: Human understanding; title: The subjective nature of objective understanding in Sartre; title: The subjective nature of objective understanding in Aquinas; title: Human freedom; title: Freedom, choice, and the indetermination of reason in Sartre; title: Freedom, choice, and the indetermination of reason in Aquinas; title: Human fulfillment; title: The possibility of human happiness in Sartre; title: The possibility of human happiness in Aquinas.