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Coming to Be: Toward a Thomistic-Whiteheadian Metaphysics of Becoming (Suny Series in Philosophy) - Hardcover
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.”
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.”
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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."
About the Author:
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.
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- PublisherState Univ of New York Pr
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0791448096
- ISBN 13 9780791448090
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages138
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