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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 9780268045654 0268045658 |
OCLC Number: | 607739836 |
Reproduction Notes: | Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : 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. |
Abstract:
Working from a realist Thomistic epistemology, this book asserts that we must begin our search for wisdom in the natural sciences. Of interest to students in philosophy and theology, it offers an analysis and synthesis of major historical contributions to the unification of knowledge, including non-Western traditions.
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"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 Read more...
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