Christian Philosophy
Tác giả: Joseph M. de Torre
Ký hiệu tác giả: TO-J
DDC: 100 - Triết học
Ngôn ngữ: Anh
Số cuốn: 1

Hiện trạng các bản sách

Mã số: 258SB0016934
Nhà xuất bản: Vera-Reyes
Năm xuất bản: 1980
Khổ sách: 21
Số trang: 336
Kho sách: Thư viện Sao Biển
Tình trạng: Hiện có
Foreword  
PART I: AN INTRODUCTION TO THEOLOGY  
Chapter 1. THEOLOGICAL TRAINING  
a. The need for doctrinal formation: a consequence of our divine vocation 1
b. Reasons for this study 3
c. A special reason 6
d. Content of Theological Study 8
Chapter 2. THEOLOGY AS A SCINECE  
a. The object of theology 11
b. Source of theological knowledge: divine revelation 12
c. The believer uses reason in theology 16
Chapter 3. THE PHILOSOPHICAL EXERCISE OF REASON AS INSTRUMENT OF THEOLOGY  
a. Spontaneous knowledge and philosophical knowledge 21
b. Continuity of all knowledge 23
c. Historical origin of theology: Christian Philosophy 25
Part II: INTRODUCTION TO CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY  
Chapter 4. DEVELOPMENT OF PHILOSOPHY IN CHRISTIANITY  
a. Beginning of theology in Christianity 29
b. The original synthesis of St. Thomas Aquinas 31
c. Continuity of Christian Philosophy 35
Chapter 5. DISPOSITION OF THE CHRISTIAN TOWARD PHILOSOPHY  
a. God and the natural truths of religion 37
b. Philosophy and the truths of the natural order 38
c. Christian Philosophy as a common cultural heritage 39
d. The help of faith not against the use of the intelligence 40
Chapter 6. THE NATURE OF PHILOSOPHY  
a. History and etymology of the term 41
b. Wisdom as knowledge of ultimate causes 42
c. A wise man order everything in relation to God 43
d. Wisdom as science 45
e. Philosophy and the orther sciences 46
Chapter 7. METAPHYSICS OOR FIRST PHILOSOPHY  
a. The Science of being as being 48
b. Substance and accidents, potentiality and actuality 49
c. Matter and form 51
d. God as the universao cause of being: essence and the act of being 53
e. The properties of being 54
f. Metaphysics and theology 55
Chapter 8. OTHER ASPECTS OF CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY AND THEIR THEOLOGICAL RELEVANCE
a. Metaphysics of man and science of man 56
b. Particular sciences are in need of metaphysics 57
c. Theological relevance of the metaphysics of nature 58
d. Metaphysics and logic 59
Chapter 9. THE METHOD OF METAPHYSICS  
a. Philosophy begins with wonder 61
b. Science as the search for the universal and necessary 62
c. Intelligence and senses 63
d. Intellectual and sensible certainty 64
e. Intelligence and imagination 66
Chapter 10. THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY  
a. Metaphysics and truth 67
b. Cultural relativism 68
Part III.  METAPHYSICS  
Chapter 11. GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO METAPHYSICS  
a. Metaphysics: the science of being as being 71
b. The object of metaphysics 72
c. Being is analogical 73
d. The principle of non-contradiction 74
e. Importance of metaphysics for theology 76
Chapter 12. THE STARTING POINT OF THE METAPHYSICAL ROAD  
a. Being, to be, essence, existance 77
b. The starting point of metaphysics 79
c. Metaphysical progress 80
Chapter 13. SUBSTANCE AND ACCIDENTS  
a. The evidence of change and the truth about being 82
b. The notion of being applies primarily to substance 82
c. Accidents: secondary manners of being 84
d. Substance and accidents related in three ways 86
e. The "inese" of the accidents 87
f. Particular importance of relation 87
Chapter 14. POTENCY AND ACT  
a. Simplicity of these concepts, gathered from the experience of change 89
b. Motion as passage from potency to act 89
c. Other metaphysical insights of potency and act 91
Chapter 15. THE ESSENCE  
a. Elucidation of terms: seence, nature, concept, defination 92
b. Essence and form 94
c. The principle of individuation 97
Chapter 16. THE ACT OF BEING AND THE ESSENCE  
a. Ultimate structure of the finite subsistent 99
b. Predicamental and transcendental participation 100
c. The participation of being as basis of the analogy of being 101
d. Subsistent subject and person: activity follows being 102
e. Individual and person 104
Chapter 17. THE ACTIVITY OF CREATED BEING  
a. Esse and nature as priciples of activity 105
b. Application to the value of human life 106
c. Beings act according to their nature 106
d. Activity as the perfection of being: idleness and work 107
e. Transient and immanent actions 108
Chapter 18. BEING AND CAUSALITY  
a. Elucidation of terms 108
b. Origin of the concept of cause: the four causes 109
c. Material cause and formal cause: theological relevance 110
d. The efficient cause: creation and causality 112
e. The instrumental cause 113
f. The final cause: cause of all cause 115
g. Direction to end; freedom and love; the order of the universe 116
h. Importance of the principle of causality 116
Chapter 19. TRANSCENDENTAL PROPERTIES OF BEING  
a. Predicamental classification of essences and transcendental vision of being 118
b. Metaphysical discovery of the transcendentals 118
c. The unity of being 119
d. The truth of being 120
e. The goodness of being 121
f. The common good: law and justice 121
g. Evil as the absence of good 122
h. The beauty of being 123
Chapter 20. CONCLUDING REVIEW OF METAPHYSICS  
a. The analogy of being and our knowledge of God 125
b. Natural and supernatural wisdom 126
Part IV: NATURAL THEOLOGY  
Chapter 21. GOD IS  
a. Man can know God: natural and supernatural knowledge 127
b. Natural theology as highest achievement of metaphysics 129
c. Philosophy cannot ignore God 130
d. Reason is led to God 130
e. Reason not the only factor in our knowledge of God 131
f. Agnosticism is unreasonable 131
g. Importance of the rational demonstration of God's existence 133
h. Limits of the human knowledge of God 133
i. The problem of atheism 134
j. The principle of immanence 135
Chapter 22. WAYS OF DEMONSTRATING THE EXISTENCE OF GOD  
a. Elucidation of terms 136
b. The first way: motion 137
c. The second way: activity 139
d. The third way: generation and corruption 140
e. The fourth way: perfection ( a summary of metaphysics) 141
f. The fifth way: order and intelligency 142
Chapter 23. GOD IS IPSUM ESSE SUBSISTENS  
a. The essence of God 143
b. The simplicity of God 144
c. The transcendence of God 146
d. The supreme goodness of God 146
e. How God should be loved 147
f. Immensity, immutability, eternity 149
Chapter 24. DIVINE OPERATION  
a. God is personal 151
b. Divine knowledge 151
c. Divine will: God is love 152
d. Divine omnipotence 153
e. God as creator 153
f. God's presence everywhere 154
g. Divine freedom and providence 155
PART V. METAPHYSICS OF MAN  
Chapter 25. INTRODUCTION  
a. Recapitulation: metaphysics as comprehensive knowledge 157
b. Object of the metaphysics of man 159
c. Spirit and matter: social sciences and physical sciences 160
d. Order and method of this study 160
e. Man as spiritual and corporeal creature 162
f. Human activity 163
Chapter 26. INTELLIGENCE  
a. Overview 165
b. Nature and object of the intelligence 165
c. Process of understanding 167
Chapter 27. SIMPLE APPREHENSION  
a. Understanding begins in the senses 168
b. Abstraction: from the sensible to the intelligible 171
c. Impression of the intelligible form on the intellect 171
d. The act of understanding 172
e. Characteristics of human concept 173
f. Knowledge of the singular 174
Chapter 28. JUDGMENT  
a. The operation of judging 175
b. Judgment and truth 176
c. Certainty and belief 176
d. Discursive process of reasoning 177
e. Self - knowledge, consciousness and reflection 178
f. Conclusion: knowledge as enrichment of being 179
Chapter 29. THE WILL  
a. Nature and object of the will. The emontions 180
b. The good of man 182
c. The will and the last end 183
d. Natural inclination of the will as distinct from actual choice 183
e. Will and intelligence 184
f. Causality of the act of the will 185
g. The will and human behavior 185
Chapter 30. FREEDOM  
a. What is freedom 186
b. Inner freedom and exterior freedom 187
c. Freedom of choice: determinism 188
d. The root of the freedom of man 189
e. Freedom and necessity 189
f. Freedom and the good 190
g. Free volition of evil 191
Chapter 31: THE HUMAN SOUL  
a. Spirituality of the human soul 192
b. The soul as substantial form of the body: no reincarnation 192
c. The spiritual perfection of man 194
d. Origin of the human soul 194
e. Immortality of the human soul 195
Chapter 32. THE PERSON AND HUMAN NATURE  
a. Nature as individuated 196
b. Person and personality 197
c. The place of the person in the uinverse 198
Chapter 33. MAN IN THE WORLD  
a. The social nature of man 199
b. Natural societies 200
c. Man and history 201
d. Human work 202
e. The santification of work 203
f. Participation in divine action 204
Appendix: CATHOLIC DOCTRINE ABOUT MAN 206
Part VI. ETHICS  
Chapter 34. INTRODUCTION  
a. Metaphysics of the end and of the moral order 209
b. Free actions 210
c. Ethics as part of metaphysics 210
d. Ethical science and moral uprightness 211
e. Order of this study 212
Chapter 35. GOOD AND EVIL  
a. The good 213
b. Participated beings have a good end or purpose 214
c. The final good moves beings 214
d. Evil as privation 215
e. Evil as deodination 215
f. Evil and freedom 216
g. Evil as such can neither move nor motivate 216
h. Physical evil 217
i. It is imposible for God to be the cause of evil 217
Chapter 36. THE LAST END  
a. Existence of a last end 218
b. Identification of the last end 219
c. Natural last end and supernatural last end 221
d. Possession of the last end: happiness 222
Chapter 37. THE COMMON GOD  
a. Proper good and common good 223
b. The common good of mankind 224
c. Love with order 225
d. The false philosophies 226
e. Ordination of beings to the common good 227
f. The common good shared in the order of the universe 228
g. Ordination of each single substance to the common good 229
h. Direct ordination of spiritual beings to the common good 230
Chapter 38. MORAL LAW AND CONSCIENCE  
a. Eternal law and moral law 231
b. Characteristics of the natural law 232
c. Knowledge of the natural law 233
d. Content of the natural law 234
e. Moral sanction 235
f. Conscience 236
g. Principles guiding conscience 238
Chapter 39. MORAL ACTS  
a. Will and freedom 239
b. Goodness and malice of human acts 241
c. Moral evil or sin 242
d. Types of sins 243
e. Effects of sin 244
f. Virtues 244
g. Types of virtues 245
Chapter 40. SOCIETY AND THE COMMON GOOD  
a. Interrelations among men 246
b. Friendship and the love of God 247
c. What is society? 249
d. History and culture 250
e. Ordering of intermediate societies to civil society 251
f. Ordering of the person to the common good of society 251
g. Peace and war 253
Chapter 41. THE FAMILY  
a. The nature of marriage 255
b. The common good of the family 257
c. Fundamental properties of marriage 258
d. Marriage and celibacy 259
Chapter 42. GOVERNMENT, AUTHORITY AND LAWS  
a. Government and politics 260
b. Authorities and obedience 262
c. Positive law 263
Chapter 43. RIGHTS AND JUSTICE  
a. Nature of the juridical order: the juridical mind 264
b. Rights and duties 265
c. Private and property 266
Part VII. HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY  
Chapter 44. INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY  
a. Philosophy as instrument of theology 269
b. Overview of the History of philosophy 271
Chapter 45. THE HISTORY OF ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY  
a. The historical setting of Christianity 274
b. Plato (427-348 B.C) 275
c. Aristotle (384-322 B.C) 279
d. Neo - Platonism 283
Chapter 46. THE HISTORY OF CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY  
a. There is a christian philosophy 284
b. The formation of christian philosophy 285
c. The contents of christian philosophy 286
d. St. Augustine (354-430) 287
e. St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) 289
f. Decadence after St. Thomas 291
Chapter 47. THE HISTORY OF MODERN PHILOSOPHY  
a. The Modernity movement 292
b. Humansim 294
c. Modern philosophy and the Church 295
d. René Descartes (1596-1650) 296
e. Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) 299
Chapter 48. CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY  
a. Overall view 303
b. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) 304
c. Marxism 305
d. Other kinds of materialism 307
e. Existentialism 309
EPILOGUE 311
BIBLIOGRAPHI 313
INDEX OF SUBJECTS 317
INDEX OF NAMES 325
Appendix: Pope John Paul II's Address at the University of St. Thomas Aquinas, Rome, November 17, 1979 327