John Rickaby General Metaphysics Reprint of the Edition London, New York, Bombay 1901 Abstract John Rickaby’s General Metaphysics (first published 1890) is a systematic textbook that offers a clear and structured introduction to classical metaphysics from a Scholastic, Aristotelian-Thomistic perspective. As part of the Stonyhurst Philosophical Series (also known as the Manuals of Catholic Philosophy),…

Carlos A. Casanova Genealogies of Rights On the Origins of Two Conflicting Versions of Rights Abstract Norberto Bobbio identified different versions of subjective rights. These pages contain a philosophical and historical investigation on the origin and the essential and distinctive traces of the classical-Christian and the liberal versions. Concretely, the book examines Michel Villey’s theses…

James Francis Anderson The Cause of Being The Philosophy of Creation in Thomas Aquinas Reprint of the first edition 1952 Abstract Why is there something rather than nothing? What makes anything to exist, as such? Can the world have been always. Is God really everywhere and in all things? Is God on fact the last…

Gerard Smith Natural Theology Metaphysics II Reprint of the 4.th Edition 1959 Abstract Natural Theology is knowledge about the First Cause of whatever has existence. The following points may serve to clarify that definition. (1) Natural Theology is speculative knowledge. (2) Natural Theology is speculative knowledge about things in terms of there dependence upon the…

Sebastian Walshe Commentary on Aristotle’s Categories A careful and detailed explanation for modern students Abstract Aristotle’s Categories remains one of the foundational works in the history of Philosophy.  At the foundations of all human thought and argument is the precise understanding of our words, and in his Categories, Aristotle proves to be a master unsurpassed…