Philosophical Papers

the long version

"Philosophical Papers is a collection of articles previously published in various journals. Two of these have already been published in other collections, but it was thought desirable to bring these, together with other articles by the same author, into one volume. This may serve to bring out the basic unity of thought running through all of these papers. It may also help to show the persistence of the great perennial problems which need to be addressed anew in every philosophical generation, ancient, medieval or modern." "The continuing relevance of St. Thomas Aquinas is a sub-text in all of these papers. Indeed, the author feels that the rediscovery of Thomistic philosophy by modern philosophers, after centuries of neglect, is among the more interesting developments in contemporary philosophy, and potentially one of the more promising. Reading Wittgenstein and Polanyi - one could also say, reading Jean-Paul Sartre or Gabriel Marcel or Paul Ricoeur - in the light of Aquinas (or vice versa), sheds new light on both."--BOOK JACKET.