Product Description This book represents an attempt to distinguish and define what beauty is in metaphysical terms, to arrive at a better understanding of beauty as a transcendental property of being, and to establish beauty’s place in philosophy alongside truth and the good through an exploration of whether there can truly be a philosophy of…
Nicholas E. Lombardo , O.P. The Logic of Desire Aquinas on Emotion http://cuapress.cua.edu/BOOKS/viewbook.cfm?Book=lold When Thomas Aquinas completed his Treatise on the Passions, it was likely the longest sustained discussion of the emotions ever written. His influence on medieval and early modern philosophy was enormous, overshadowing every other medieval author on the topic of emotion. Although…
From Gifford Lectures Biography Étienne Henri Gilson was born into a Roman Catholic family in Paris on 13 June 1884. He was educated at a number of Roman Catholic schools in Paris before attending lycée Henri IV in 1902, where he studied philosophy. Two years later he enrolled at the Sorbonne, graduating in 1907 after…
University of Dallas Press Release Vatican Astronomer Guy Consolmagno to Deliver Address on March 6 (Irving, Texas – Feb. 6, 2008) – The University of Dallas will sponsor a public lecture by Guy Consolmagno, S.J., distinguished scientist and major interpreter of the relationship between science and religion, on Thursday, March 6, 2008. The lecture, “How…
Here is where the Birthday ideas come: Ralph McInerny just released this great piece of work titled “Praeambule Fidei” which basicaly means Steps Before Faith. Here are the details below THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA PRESS PRAEAMBULA FIDEI Thomism and the God of the Philosophers Ralph McInerny Paper ISBN 0-8132-1458-0, $34.95 313 pages Publication date:…
By J P Moreland: James Porter Moreland (born 1948), commonly referred to as J.P. Moreland, is an American philosopher, theologian, and Christian apologist. Dr. Moreland is a prolific author, lecturer, and debater on a wide range of philosophical, religious, and social issues. He is best known for his contributions to contemporary philosophical apologetics, his critiques…