Introduction to the Philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas, Volume 2 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781608991235)

In the brief span of some 140 pages Pere Gardeil succeeds remarkably well in the simple presentation of the Aristotelian principles of mobile being, quantity, motion, causation, place, time, inanity, the first mover, and astronomical theory. A second section (of some forty-five pages) selects five capital texts from the classic commentary of St. Thomas upon Aristotle's Physics and the full text of his model synopsis of Aristotelian cosmology in the early Paris opuscule, De Principiis Naturae. The translation of the original French work of 1953 has been accomplished with sober clarity and served editorially with a useful index and notes. Its frank, working language should attract both philosophical novice and pragmatic scientist alike and effect their working contact with a classic vision of the universe. --Philosophical Studies

Author: H. D. Gardeil
ISBN-10: 1608991237
ISBN-13: 9781608991235
Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2009
Pages: 230
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.60d