Being and Knowing
Subtitle: Reflections of a Thomist
Edition: First edition.
Series: The Library of Conservative Thought
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9781351314244
Subjects: Ontology; Theory of Knowledge; Ontologie; Théorie de la connaissance; Ontology (metaphysics); Epistemology
Description: "Frederick D. Wilhelmsen's Being and Knowing, rooted in the philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas, rests on two basic assertions: first, metaphysics is the science of being in its first and ultimate act, existence (the act by which all things manifest themselves); second, that existence is known not through observing objects, but in affirming through judgments that these objects are subjects of existence. The chapters of this book explore these Thomistic doctrines. Some explain St. Thomas Aquinas's philosophy of being. Others probe his epistemology. The complexity and density of Aquinas's theory of judgment (that truth is realized in the judgment of man), emphasized throughout most of the book, point not only to a deeper understanding of the nature of metaphysics, but they open doors to the clarification of philosophical issues germane to contemporary thought. This work addresses a number of metaphysical philosophical paradoxes. Wilhelmsen's exploration of them demonstrates why he was the preeminent American scholar of the Thomistic tradition. This volume is part of Transaction's series, the Library of Conservative Thought."--Provided by publisher
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1 Metaphysics as Creativity  -- Frederick D. Wilhelmsen William Marshner; title: chapter 2 The Triplex Via and the Transcendence of Esse  -- Frederick D. Wilhelmsen William Marshner; title: chapter 3 The Concept of Existence and the Structure of Judgment: A Thomistic Paradox  -- Frederick D. Wilhelmsen William Marshner; title: chapter 4 The Priority of Judgment over Question: Reflections on Transcendental Thomism  -- Frederick D. Wilhelmsen William Marshner; title: chapter 5 Existence and Esse  -- Frederick D. Wilhelmsen William Marshner; title: chapter 6 Creation as a Relation in St. Thomas Aquinas  -- Frederick D. Wilhelmsen William Marshner; title: chapter 7 Reasoning and Computers  -- Frederick D. Wilhelmsen William Marshner; title: chapter 8 The "I" and Aquinas  -- Frederick D. Wilhelmsen William Marshner; title: chapter 9 Modern Man's Myth of Self-Identity  -- Frederick D. Wilhelmsen William Marshner; title: chapter 10 Subject Analysis in the Philosophy of Communications  -- Frederick D. Wilhelmsen William Marshner; title: chapter 11 A Meditation on the Dignity of the Human Person Prompted by Saint Thomas Aquinas --; title: Summa Contra Gentiles, IV. c. 11.  -- Frederick D. Wilhelmsen William Marshner; title: chapter 12 The Christian Understanding of Being: A Thomistic Reading -- Frederick D. Wilhelmsen William Marshner.