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Introduction to Thomistic Philosophy
Author(s): John Peterson (Author)
- Publisher: University Press of America
- Publication Date: 14 Dec. 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 140 pages
- ISBN-10: 9780761859864
- ISBN-13: 0761859861
Book Description
This book introduces readers to Thomistic philosophy through selected topics such as being, God, teleology, truth, persons and knowledge, ethics, and universals. Defending the basis of Aquinas’ natural-law ethics, Introduction to Thomistic Philosophy reveals the role of universalizability and the relation of right and good in his ethics.
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About the Author
John Peterson received his master’s degree from Boston College in 1959 and received his doctorate degree from Indiana University in 1965. He is the author of Realism and Logical Atomism (1976), Introduction to Scholastic Realism (1999), and Aquinas: A New Introduction (2008). His papers have appeared in The Review of Metaphysics, Ratio, Faith and Philosophy, International Philosophical Quarterly, and other notable journals.
