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W. Norris Clarke - The Creative Retrieval of Saint Thomas Aquinas. Essays in Thomistic Philosophy, New and Old.  - 9780823229284 - V9780823229284
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The Creative Retrieval of Saint Thomas Aquinas. Essays in Thomistic Philosophy, New and Old.

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Description for The Creative Retrieval of Saint Thomas Aquinas. Essays in Thomistic Philosophy, New and Old. hardcover. The author is known for his development of a Thomistic personalism. To be a person, according to Saint Thomas, is to take conscious self-possession of one's own being, to be master of oneself. But our incarnate mode of being human involves living in a body whose life unfolds across time, and is inevitably dispersed across time. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: HPCB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 531.

W. Norris Clarke has chosen the fifteen essays in this collection, five of which appear here for the first time, as the most significant of the more than seventy he has written over the course of a long career.
Clarke is known for his development of a Thomistic personalism. To be a person, according to Saint Thomas, is to take conscious self-possession of one's own being, to be master of oneself. But our incarnate mode of being human involves living in a body whose life unfolds across time, and is inevitably dispersed across time. If we wish to ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
Number of Pages
250
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823229284
SKU
V9780823229284
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About W. Norris Clarke
W. Norris Clarke, S. J., has for decades taught philosophy at Fordham. Among his books are Explorations in Metaphysics: Being-God-Person, The One and the Many: A Contemporary Thomistic Metaphysics, and The Philosophical Approach to God: A New Thomistic Perspective, 2nd Edition (Fordham).

Reviews for The Creative Retrieval of Saint Thomas Aquinas. Essays in Thomistic Philosophy, New and Old.
"New and previously published writings on such topics as the medieval theologian's concept of the person." -The Chronicle of Higher Education "An eminently readable collection from a learned and lively mind." -The Thomist

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