Thomas Aquinas regularly claims that metaphysics is not merely scientific, but the highest and most certain of all the sciences, and his conception of metaphysics is one of the boldest and most epistemically ambitious in the history of philosophy. This book presents a new account of Aquinas's metaphysics, approached from the perspective of his theory of science and knowledge. It offers a novel interpretation of his understanding of the properties of being, the principles of being, the requirements for demonstrative knowledge, and shows how Aquinas's account of metaphysics was able to meet those requirements in a more coherent and compelling way than any thinker who had come before him. It will be of interest to scholars of medieval philosophy, the Aristotelian tradition, metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophical methodology.
Recent critiques of metaphysics tend to focus on arguing that it is methodologically unreliable, otherwise epistemically deficient, and/or irrelevant to practical concerns. Defenders counter that metaphysics is continuous with science, an unavoidable part of inquiry, and/or already yielding valuable results. So far, ne...
Sam Baron, Finnur Dellsén, James Norton· Synthese· 0 citations
George A. Gonzalez demonstrates that Georg Hegel (1770-1831) is the philosopher of the Enlightenment and of science. Analytic philosophers consider themselves philosophers of science. Gonzalez shows that Hegel philosophically grounds the Enlightenment, whereas the “science” of analytic philosophers (scientism) results...
This article intends to investigate how Aristotle moves towards a 'theology' when considering the existence of 'separate substances' or 'supersensible', admitting the existence of realities alien to hylomorphic ones while allowing the principle of movement of sensitive substances to be guaranteed. In this sense, we see...
Gabriel Lins e Oliveira Batista· Eleutheria· 0 citations
The article analyses the roots of the novel understanding of science that has been proposed by the Estonian philosopher of science and chemistry Rein Vihalemm and called practical realism by him. The analysis reveals an interesting intellectual journey that brought a philosopher who was educated in the Soviet Union in...
Zhumagul Bekenova, P. Müürsepp· Balkan Journal of Philosophy· 0 citations
The attempt by neo-Aristotelian naturalists such as Philippa Foot and Michael Thompson to ground the objective validity of ethical principles in human nature has met with significant criticism. In particular, critics often reject the concept of life-form central to this view as incompatible with modern scientific biolo...
Abstract How theoretical is political science, i.e. the discipline of ethics? And how theoretical is phronēsis, i.e. a virtuous agent’s ethical knowledge of how to live? Readers of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics have given widely divergent answers to these questions. Contrary to the tendency of recent scholarship, we a...
Samuel H. Baker, Patricio A. Fernandez· Rhizomata· 0 citations
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