Coming to Be - Toward a Thomistic-Whiteheadian Metaphysics of Becoming

Synthesizes Thomistic and Whiteheadian metaphysics.
This book explores the possibility of using the twentieth-century "process" philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead to modernize the thirteenth-century metaphysics of St. Thomas Aquinas in order to make better philosophical sense of the evolutionary processes of the world. Due to certain limitations, neither philosophy has been able to provide satisfactory metaphysical accounts of the world. In joining the two, these individual limitations are avoided, and the advantages of each-Thomistic metaphysics with its deeper ontology, Whiteheadian metaphysics with its ability to account for the evolutionary advances now apparent in the universe-provide a revised theory that is a kind of "process-enriched Thomism."

A propos de l'auteur

James W. Felt is John Nobili Professor of Philosophy at Santa Clara University and the author of Making Sense of Your Freedom: Philosophy for the Perplexed.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: James W Felt, James W. Felt
• Edition: State University of New York Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 07.12.2000
• EAN: 9780791448090
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-4809-0
• Pages: 152
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 234 mm x 13 mm
• Poids: 308 g
• Thème: Suny Philosophy
• Catégorie: Littérature spécialisée > Philosophie, religion > Philosophie: général, ouvrages de référence