| Aquinas on Mind Revised Edition Contributor(s): Kenny, Sir Anthony (Author), Kenny, Anthony (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415113067 ISBN-13: 9780415113069 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $44.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1994 Annotation: Aquinas' mature works, though theological in intent, contain much material which is philosophical in the sense that it is not in any way dependent on beliefs which are specifically Christian. His philosophical psychology, or philosophy of mind, was not taken seriously by secular thinkers, with one or two exceptions, from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries because of the dominance of ideas deriving from Descartes. In the present century many philosophers have come to regard the Cartesian system as quite exploded, and it can now be seen that Aquinas' philosophy of mind has a great contemporary interest. This book makes accessible those parts of Aquinas' system which are of enduring value. The kernel of the work is a close reading of the sections of Summa Theologiae which are devoted to human intellect and will and to the relationship between soul and body. It presupposes no knowledge of Latin or of medieval history, and relates Aquinas' system to a tradition of philosophy of mind inaugurated in the Anglo-American community by Wittgenstein and Ryle. Anthony Kenny is unusually qualified to bring together the medieval and modern philosophical insights, since he was trained in scholastic philosophy at the Gregorian University in Rome and has taught analytic philosophy in Oxford for many years. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Movements - Humanism - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Medieval |
| Dewey: 128.209 |
| Lexile Measure: 1240 |
| Series: Topics in Medieval Philosophy |
| Physical Information: 0.64" H x 5.45" W x 8.48" (0.67 lbs) 192 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book shows how the mature writings of Thomas Aquinas though written in the thirteenth century have much to offer the human mind and the relationship between intellect and will, body and soul. |