By J.J. MacIntosh

ISBN-10: 1848935986

ISBN-13: 9781848935983

The Arguments of Aquinas is meant for readers with philosophical pursuits, who will not be experts in medieval philosophy. a few imagine medieval saint needs to be, as such, incorrect, dated, and uninteresting; others consider saint, any saint, needs to be correct, proper, and inspirational. either teams are inclined to misinterpret Aquinas, if certainly they learn him in any respect. The works of serious philosophers are items in their occasions, yet that doesn't decrease their price for us. We revenue by way of analyzing the works of St Thomas within the comparable yet severe approach that we learn the works of our contemporaries.



MacIntosh doesn't hesitated to check Thomas's arguments with these of later philosophers in addition to with these of his contemporaries and prior philosophers. He chooses themes from numerous nonetheless fascinating areas of difficulty: the life and attributes of God, together with God's foreknowledge and human unfastened will, causality and the beginning of the universe, time and necessity, human souls, angels, and the matter of evil. also, the amount appears at his perspectives on honesty and mendacity, and on human sexuality, on which he's, as ever, philosophically attention-grabbing even if we settle for his conclusions.

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