Editiones Scholasticae

The aim of the book is to meet and combat false conceptions, to co-ordinate true notions, and so to furnish the reader with some general information on old and new scholasticism.The advantage of the...

The quest for unity and multiplicity is one of the most important concerns in the history of human thought and has been of unceasing interest since the birth of the history of philosophy to the...

This monograph is a critical and historical account of Aristotelian essentialism and modal logic. In Chapter One, ancient and contemporary interpretations and claims of inconsistency in Aristotle's...

An attempt to provide students and general readers with an introduction to the basic concepts and principles of classic, realistic philosophy. Without some grasp of its basic principles, it is...

This book deals with teleology, truth, predication, knowledge and belief, universals, body and mind, soul, and reason. Its approach is integrative, scholastic and analytic. Teleology is required for...

The first volume of this introduction to Thomistic philosophy includes as part 1 cosmology as the philosophy of inanimate nature, and as part 2 the philosophy of animate nature that is philosophical...

This book is the first extended attempt to explain Plato's ethics of natural law, to place it accurately in the history of moral theory, and to defend it against the objections that it is...

With the death of Edward Jonathan Lowe (1950-2014), the analytical philosophy lost one of the most influential thinkers of the last thirty-five years. His contributions include (but are not limited...

This work attempts to bring to light the doctrine on the fundamental categories as taught by Thomas Aquinas and other great masters of the golden era of Scholasticism. At the same time it reviews,...

The choice of the basis of metaphysics is of capital importance. This basis ought to guarantee the very existence and validity of metaphysics, while at the same time giving this science its formal...

No realistic philosophy can be considered complete unless it includes a philosophy of nature. The philosophy of human nature is an area where most of the problems of the philosophy of nature occur,...

The philosophical question of nothingness has often been controversial. The main core of the question is the use of 'nothing' or 'nothingness' as a noun phrase rather than a quantifier phrase. This...

One of the major objectives of this book is to make Thomistic metaphysics - an inquiry into the act of existing, the act of to be, exercised by all beings to some degree - more understandable. The...

This book is a consideration of the differences between Aristotelian and symbolic logic (and the metaphysical assumptions they come packaged with) and the consequences these have for how we view the...