Research Catalog

Title

The importance of truth / edited by Michael Baur.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : National Office of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, the Catholic University of America, ©1994.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Baur, Michael.
• American Catholic Philosophical Association. Annual Meeting (1993)

Description

iv, 281 pages; 23 cm

Series Statement

• Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association ; v. 67
• American Catholic philosophical quarterly. Annual supplement

Uniform Title

• Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association ; v. 67.
• American Catholic philosophical quarterly. Annual supplement.

Subject

• Religion > Philosophy > Congresses
• Catholic Church and philosophy > Congresses
• Religion > Philosophie > Congrès
• Église catholique et philosophie > Congrès
• Catholic Church and philosophy
• Religion > Philosophy
• Wahrheit
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Truth

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings.

Note

• "Annual ACPA proceedings."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Presidential address : Truth and happiness / Lawrence Dewan -- Medalist's address / Ralph McInerny -- Plenary sessions -- Truth and technology / Benedict Ashley -- The importance of religious truth / Hugo Meynell -- Political philosophy vs. political ideology / Ralph Nelson -- Section I. Thomism and knowledge -- How knowing the world completes the world : a note on Aquinas and Husserl / John C. McCarthy -- Section II. Nineteenth century -- Feuerbach and Nietzsche on the significance of dreaming / Paul Gallagher -- Ethics, politics and ontology / James Kow -- Section III. The self -- What's wrong with egoism / Joseph Spoerl -- God does not harden hearts / Sandra Menssen and Thomas Sullivan -- Section IV. Truth in Aquinas -- The "stronger" truth of Aquinas / Edward A. Synan -- Eternal truth : Plotinus, Aquinas, and James Ross / Lloyd Gerson -- Section V. Applied issues -- Speaking falsely and telling lies / Kenneth Kemp and Thomas Sullivan -- A narrrow defense of the Hippocratic proscription of killing / Don T. Asselin -- Section VI. Imagination and its work -- Imagination as source of falsehood in Aquinas / Marie I. George -- Authentic existence in Simone de Beauvior's She came to stay / Patricia Fauser -- Section VII. Some medievals -- Is St. Albert the Great a dualist on human nature? / Steven Baldner -- Abelardian ethics reconstructed / Lance Simmons -- Section VIII. Truth in Aristotle -- Aristotle : ways of truth and ways of opinion / Kurt Pritzl -- Aristotle and Augustine on the way to truth : essential agreement and existential difference / Montague Brown.

ISBN

0918090274 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

93060867

OCLC

• ocm30134114
• 30134114
• SCSB-2123082

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library