Introduction to the Philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas, Volume 2: Cosmology

Gardeil, H. D.

ISBN 10: 1608991237 / ISBN 13: 9781608991235

Published by B. Herder Book Company, St. Louis, Missouri, 1962

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HARDCOVER.B. Herder Book Company, St. Louis, Missouri, 1962. Second edition in English. xiii, 218 pages. Original orange cloth binding with gilt lettering to spine. Yellow dustjacket with white lettering on orange background and black lettering on cover and spine. Contents include Foreward, Acknowledgements, Chapter with 10 parts and text part with 6 chapters. Index at rear. Book in near fine condition. Dustjacket with general wear and a few small, closed tears a portion missing on spine. See photographs. Book 4248 location 3-2.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Introduction to the Philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas, Volume 2: Cosmology
• Publisher: B. Herder Book Company, St. Louis, Missouri
• Publication Date: 1962
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1608991237
• ISBN 13: 9781608991235
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
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Synopsis

In the brief span of some 140 pages Pere Gardeil succeeds remarkably well in the simple presentation of the Aristotelian principles of mobile being, quantity, motion, causation, place, time, inanity, the first mover, and astronomical theory. A second section (of some forty-five pages) selects five capital texts from the classic commentary of St. Thomas upon Aristotle's Physics and the full text of his model synopsis of Aristotelian cosmology in the early Paris opuscule, De Principiis Naturae. The translation of the original French work of 1953 has been accomplished with sober clarity and served editorially with a useful index and notes. Its frank, working language should attract both philosophical novice and pragmatic scientist alike and effect their working contact with a classic vision of the universe. --Philosophical Studies