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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Ashley, Benedict M. Way toward wisdom. Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, ©2006 (DLC) 2006013083 (OCoLC)67728109 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Benedict M Ashley |
ISBN: | 0268074690 9780268074692 |
OCLC Number: | 607739836 |
Reproduction Notes: | Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
Description: | 1 online resource (xxi, 617 pages) : illustrations. |
Details: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
Contents: | The problem of the unification of knowledge -- The historical varieties of "metaphysics" in Western culture -- Natural science is epistemologically first -- The culminating foundational theorem of natural science -- The existence and essence of metascience -- Unity, plurality, and efficient causality -- Unity and plurality in other sciences -- Truth and formal causality -- Truth in the special sciences -- Goodness and final causality -- Finality in the special sciences -- The absolute and/or nature -- The one creating first cause -- The way toward wisdom. |
Series Title: | Thomistic studies. |
Responsibility: | Benedict M. Ashley. |
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"In "The Way toward Wisdom: An Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Introduction to Metaphysics" . . . Father Ashley explains why only metaphysics has a legitimate claim to being the university's unifying academic discipline. Without it, universities have no 'way toward wisdom'. . . . Father Ashley's book is a gift, a patient exposition of human wisdom, proceeding from the best of the Catholic intellectual tradition." "The British Columbia Catholic"" In summarizing and synthesizing the best of Neothomism and the range of developments of modern scientific and cultural studies, Ashley s work brings to a close the late modern involvement of Thomism as Neothomism by opening the way to a postmodern era for philosophy and intellectual culture as a whole, an era within which we may expect to see yet another epoch of Thomistic development . . . "American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly"" "Ashley's book is a recapitulation of a lifelong effort to reach a comprehensive understanding of reality. It displays a high level of scholarship, offers a voyage through the philosophical disciplines and takes into account the metaphysical orientation of the great religious traditions of mankind." --The Review of Metaphysics--The Review of Metaphysics "In summarizing and synthesizing the best of Neothomism and the range of developments of modern scientific and cultural studies, Ashley's work brings to a close the late modern involvement of Thomism as 'Neothomism' by opening the way to a postmodern era for philosophy and intellectual culture as a whole, an era within which we may expect to see yet another epoch of Thomistic development . . ." --American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly "In The Way toward Wisdom: An Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Introduction to Metaphysics . . . Father Ashley explains why only metaphysics has a legitimate claim to being the university's unifying academic discipline. Without it, universities have no 'way toward wisdom'. . . . Father Ashley's book is a gift, a patient exposition of human wisdom, proceeding from the best of the Catholic intellectual tradition." --The British Columbia Catholic Read more...

