Analytical Thomism
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Analytical Thomism is a
Scottish philosopher
History 19th century—World War
The modern revival of Aquinas's thought can be traced to the work of mid-19th Century thomists, such as
Similarly, the Kraków Circle in Poland used mathematical logic in presenting Thomism, which the Circle judged to have "a structured body of propositions connected in meaning and subject matter, and linked by logical relations of compatibility and incompatibility, entailment, etc."[3] The Circle has been said to be "the most significant expression of Catholic thought between the two World Wars".[4]
Postwar philosophical reception of Aquinas
By the middle of the 20th century Aquinas's thought came into dialogue with the analytical tradition through the work of
Anscombe, and other
Notable analytical Thomists
Philosophers and theologians working in the intersection of Thomism and analytic philosophy include:
- Michael Staron (Saint Anselm's Abbey School)
- Mortimer Adler(1902-2001)
- David Braine
- John C. Cahalan (independent scholar)
- Brian Davies (Fordham)
- Gabriele De Anna (Udine) (Bamberg)
- Edward Feser
- John Finnis (Oxford)
- Peter Geach (Deceased)
- John Haldane(St Andrews) (Baylor University)
- Simon Hewitt (Leeds)
- Jonathan Jacobs (Colgate)
- Anthony Kenny (Oxford)
- Fergus Kerr (Oxford)
- Gyula Klima (Fordham)
- Norman Kretzmann
- John Lamont
- Elizabeth Anscombe(Deceased)
- Anthony J. Lisska (Denison)
- Alasdair MacIntyre (Notre Dame)
- Bruce D. Marshall (Southern Methodist Univ)
- William Marshner (Christendom)
- Christopher Martin (St Thomas, Houston)
- Cyrille Michon (Nantes, France)
- Mark Murphy (Georgetown)
- Herbert McCabe (Deceased)
- John P. O'Callaghan (Notre Dame)
- Robert Pasnau (CU Boulder)
- Craig Paterson (Independent Scholar)
- Roger Pouivet (Nancy, France)
- Alexander Pruss (Baylor University)
- Matthew S. Pugh (Providence College)
- Eleonore Stump (Saint Louis)
- Thomas Sullivan and Sandra Menssen (University of St. Thomas, MN)
- Stephen Theron, Denys Turner (Yale), Michael Thompson (Pittsburgh)
- Giovanni Ventimiglia(Lugano, Switzerland)
- James Madden (Benedictine College)
- Jeffrey Brower (Purdue University)
- Andrew Jaeger (Benedictine College)
- Robert Alspaugh (St. Anselm's Abbey School)
- Christopher Bobier (St. Mary's University of Minnesota)
- T. Adam Van Wart (Ave Maria University)
- David Burrell
- Michał Głowala (University of Wroclaw)
See also
- Cracow Circle Thomism)
- Meta-ethics
- Philosophy of religion
- Neo-scholasticism
- Richard Swinburne – English philosopher and Christian apologist
References
Citations
- ^ Haldane 2004, p. xii.
- ^ Paterson & Pugh 2006, pp. xiii–xxiii.
- ^ Simons 2003, pp. 281–297.
- ^ Murawski 2014, pp. 359–376.
Sources
- Haldane, John (2004). Faithful Reason: essays Catholic and Philosophical. London and New York: Routledge.
- Murawski, Roman (2014). "Cracow Circle and Its Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics". Axiomathes. 25 (3): 359–376. ISSN 1122-1151.
- Paterson, Craig; Pugh, Matthew S., eds. (2006). "Introduction" (PDF). Analytical Thomism: Traditions in Dialogue. Aldershot and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-05-26.
- Simons, Peter (2003). "Bocheński and Balance: System and History in Analytic Philosophy". Studies in East European Thought. 55 (4): 281–297. S2CID 142830603., reprinted in Edgar Morscher, Otto Neumaier, and Peter Simons (2011), Ein Philosoph mit "Bodenhaftung": Zu Leben und Werk von Joseph M. Bocheński, Sankt Augustin: Academia, pp. 61-79.
Further reading
- Alfred Freddoso, Two Roles for Catholic Philosophers
- Brian J Shanley, OP, The Thomist Tradition (Dordrecht/Boston/London: Kluwer, 2002).
- Entries by Stephen Theron in Haldane (ed.) (1997) and Paterson & Pugh (eds.) (2006).
- Entries by Shanley and John Knasasin Paterson & Pugh (eds.) (2006).
- "Tomismo analitico" [Analytical Thomism] (in Spanish).
- John C. Cahalan, Causal Realism: An Essay on Philosophical Method and the Foundations of Knowledge (Routledge, 1985)
- Copleston, F.C. (1955). Aquinas. Penguin.
- John Finnis, Aquinas: Moral, Political, and Legal Theory (Oxford, 1998).
- John Haldane (ed.), "Analytical Thomism" volume of Monist 80 (4) October, 1997.
- Haldane, John (1999). "Thomism and the Future of Catholic Philosophy". New Blackfriars. 80 (938): 158–169. ISSN 0028-4289.
- Kerr, Fergus (2004). "Aquinas and Analytic Philosophy: Natural Allies?". Modern Theology. 20 (1): 123–139. ISSN 0266-7177.
- Anthony J Lisska,Aquinas's Theory of Natural Law: An Analytic Reconstruction (Oxford: New York, 1996).
- Pérez de Laborda, Miguel, "El tomismo analítico", Philosophica: Enciclopedia filosófica on line 2007
- Bruce D. Marshall, Trinity and Truth (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).
- Roger Pouivet, Après Wittgenstein, saint Thomas (PUF, 1997).
- T. Adam Van Wart, Neither Nature nor Grace: Aquinas, Barth, and Garrigou-Lagrange on the Epistemic Use of God's Effects (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2020).
- Michał Głowała, Możności i ich akty. Studium z tomizmu analitycznego (Oficyna Wydawnicza Atut - Wrocławskie Wydawnictwo Oświatowe, 2016).
- Ventimiglia, Giovanni (2012). To be o esse? La questione dell'essere nel tomismo analitico [To be or them? The question of being in analytic Thomism]. Rome: Carocci.