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Title

Reckoning with the tradition / edited by Michael Baur.

Publication

Bronx, NY : Issued by the National Office of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, c2005.

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Additional Authors

• American Catholic Philosophical Association. Meeting (2004)
• Baur, Michael.

Description

[4], 324 p.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

• Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, 0065-7638 ; 78
• Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association.

Subject

• Catholic Church and philosophy > Congresses
• Religion > Philosophy > Congresses
• Tradition (Philosophy)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Respect for tradition (and the Catholic philosopher today) / Nicholas Rescher -- Self-referential (or performative) inconsistency : its significance for truth / John Finnis -- The aporetic Augustine / Gareth Matthews -- Adapting Aquinas : analogy and forms / James Ross -- Happiness and the willing agent : the ongoing relevance of the Franciscan tradition / Bonnie Kent -- Newman's standing as a philosopher / Ian Kerr -- How can the grand metaphysical questions of the (Christian- ) metaphysical tradition be re-thought today? / Lorenz B. Puntel -- Thomas's elusive proof : a reconstruction of the "existential argument" for the existence of God / Stephen Pimentel -- The uncertainty principle and problem of God / Glenn Statile -- The relevance of Aristotle's notion of equity for the contemporary abortion debate / James M. Jacobs -- Killing innocents and the doctrine of double effect / John Zeis -- Duns Scotus's account of a propter quid science of the categories / Lloyd Newton -- Are there final causes? / John Peterson -- The appropriation of myth and the sayings of the wise in Plato's Meno and Philebus / Joe McCoy -- Hylomorphism and the mind-body problem / William Jaworski -- Reckoning with Ross : possibles, divine ideas, and virtual practical knowledge / Aaron Martin -- Is the problem of evil a problem for Descartes? / Brett Gaul -- Value incommensurability / Stephen R. Grimm -- Moral dilemmas and moral luck : reckoning with the Thomistic ethical tradition / M.V. Dougherty -- On the mind's pronouncement of time : Aristotle, Augustine, and Husserl on time-consciousness / Michael R. Kelly -- Augustinian elements in Heidegger's philosophical anthropology : a study of the early lecture course on Augustine / Chad Engelland -- New technologies, old distinctions : what's wrong with cloning / Max J. Latona -- Ethics is hospitality / Raymond D. Boisvert -- ACPA reports and minutes.

ISBN

1889680443

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library