Leo Elders Boeken

Metaphysics, formerly the queen of science, fell into oblivion under the onslaught of empiricism and positivism and its very possibllity came to be denied. Professor Elders traces the history of this process and shows how St. Thomas innovated in determining both the subject of metaphysics and the manner in which one enters this science, particularly in the framework of his Aristotle commentaries.The work then considers being and its properties, its divisions into being in act and being in potency, into the act of being essence, and into substance and the accidents. Finally the causes of being are considered. The work also introduces and surveys the extensive literature of Thomas interpretation of the past 50 years.

In the past decades scholars in the field of Thomistic studies repeatedly expressed the desirability of an up-to-date manual on the philosophy of nature and anthropology of St. Thomas Aquinas. Questions demanding to be discussed concern, for instance, the precise nature of a philosophical and a scientific approach, the place of classical philosophy of nature in our time, the value of the atomic representation of material reality, the relevance of the concept of substance. Is it still possible to speak of the human soul? What is the relation between man and the world? The author, a well-known specialist in Thomistic studies, tries to answer these and similar questions in the light of the principles of Aquinas. The explanations are placed in a historical context; the numerous notes give the relevant texts of Aquinas in Latin. Some 500 authors are quoted.

Der Inhalt befasst sich mit: Vorwort der Herausgeber Der Zugang zu Gott im postmodernen Zeitalter Der Dialog beim hl. Thomas von Aquin Die Unsterblichkeit der menschlichen Seele Der Mensch in der Welt und in der Geschichte Die Person im Bezug zu Gott: Betrachtung zur Grundlage sittlicher Normen Das Gemeinwohl als Ziel und Ordnungsprinzip des gesellschaftlichen Lebens Die Naturwissenschaften und das Dasein Gottes Zur Begründung der fünf Wege Der Wahrheitsbegriff in den Bibelkommentaren des Thomas von Aquin Aufnahme und Erleuchtung in der prophetischen Erkenntnis nach Thomas von Aquin Geheimnischarakter und Rationalität in der Trinitätslehre nach Thomas von Aquin Das Innenleben Jesu in der Theologie und Verehrung des hl. Thomas von Aquin Die Eschatologie des hl. Thomas von Aquin Edith Stein und Thomas von Aquin

Kniha s podtitulem "Příroda, vesmír, člověk" je rozborem Tomášovy nauky o přírodě a jeho filosofické antropologie. Východiskem rozboru je Tomášova recepce Aristotela a moderní věda.