A Synthesis of Metaphysics Louis de Raeymaeker The choice of the basis of metaphysics is of capital importance. This basis ought to guarantee the very existence and the validity of metaphysics, while given this science at the same time its formal object and a solid foundation. But if metaphysics is bound up with the study…

An Inquiry into the Act of Existing Charles A. Hart One of the major objectives of this book is to make Thomistic metaphysics – an inquiry into the act of existing, the act of to be, exercised by all beings to some degree – more understandable to the man of ordinary intellectual training. Therefore, the…

An Introduction to Scholastic Philosophy John Peterson This book deals with teleology, truth, predication, knowledge and belief, universals, body and mind, soul, and reason. Its approach is integrative, scholastic and analytic. Teleology is required for causality, truth and reason. Where the measure is an end, things measure mind in theoretical truth and mind measures things in practical truth.…

Reprint of the 1th Edition 1955, New York George Klubertanz Abstract The human intellect must begin with sensible things, and hence all principles must somehow be found in sense experience. The discovery of principles in an induction. But there is no danger of empiricism or sensism, if we remember that point on which Aristotle and…

Reprint of the 1th Edition New York 1948 John Wild Abstract The present book is an attempt to provide students and general readers with an introduction to the basic concepts and principles of classic, realistic philosophy. Without some grasp of its basic principles, it is impossible to understand either the history of modern philosophy or…