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Description from Inside FlapMan today is plagued by two great philosophical conflicts. First there is the debate between idealism and realism. Secondly, the conflict between the "new" learning, modern science, and the "old" learning, the age-old philosophia perennis.
This book shows how St. Thomas' realistic theory of judgment anticipated the modern critical problem and offered a refutation of idealism. It further shows how science for St. Thomas was both rigorous and real. Rigorous, because its judgments are universal and necessary; real, because they are judgments about the real world of existing things in experience.
In showing how the mind's contact with reality is achieved, not in simple apprehension, but in the act of judgment, the topic is treated in two parts: the phenomenology of judgment and the justification of the various categories of judgment. Father Hoenen makes it clear that for St. Thomas the mind does not make the content of its knowledge, but discovers the content in concrete… Read More
