Description
Book SynopsisRe-thinking the Angelic Doctor is a major new reassessment of the reception of Thomas Aquinas in the work of the twentieth-century American philosopher W. Norris Clarke. Author Aloysius N. Ezeoba explores the question of whether Clarke was engaged in a creative retrieval of Aquinas' system of thought with a focus on the human person or whether Clarke was forging his own path in attemptting to provide a creative completion. Shedding new light on the workings of two great minds separated by eight centuries, Re-thinking the Angelic Doctor will be of interest to readers who are looking for a timely re-examination of the Aristotelian arguments, especially as they are appropriated by template religious thinkers such as Aquinas. It will also be a valuable resource in graduate courses in medieval and modern philosophy and theology.
Readers concerned with understanding how to appropriate St. Thomas Aquinas's thinking for the twenty-first century will be great
Table of Contents
Foreword – Introduction – Human Person as Substance – The Human Person in Clarke is a Dynamic Substance Rooted in Esse – Human Substance in Aquinas’ vis-à-vis Clarke’s – Clarke’s Problem with The Human Substance Among Some Modern and Contemporary Thinkers – New Notion of Substance as Intrinsically Dynamic – Human Person as Relation – Clarke’s Theory of Relation in Aquinas – The Origin of The Primordial Notion of Relations – Developed Primordial Relations Among Contemporary Thinkers – Clarke and Contentious Problems of Person as Relation in the Contemporary Thought – Human Person as Substance-in-Relation – Clarke’s Notion of Person – Reason for Relation (agere) – The Ontological Orientation of the Human Person – Transcendental Method – Aquinas’ Root of Clarke’s Thought and Relational Problem – Substance-in-relation: Creative Retrieval or Completion of Aquinas’ Thought? – Relational Problem, Dangers, and Proposal – Proposal for the Development of the Primordial Relation in esse – Conclusion – Bibliography – Index.
