"Foreword by Christoph Cardinal Schönborn Darwin’s theory of evolution remains controversial, even though most scientists, philosophers, and even theologians accept it, in some form, as a well-attested explanation for the variety of organisms. The controversy erupts when the theory is used to try to explain everything, including every aspect of human life, and to deny the role of a Creator or a purpose to life. It is then that philosophe ..."
"In this classic work, the eminent Catholic philosopher Etienne Gilson deals with one of the most important and perplexing metaphysical problems: the relation between our notion of God and demonstrations of his existence. Gilson examines Greek, Christian, and modern philosophy as well as the thinking that has grown out of our age of science in this fundamental analysis of the problem of God."[I] commend to another generation of seekers a ..."
"... Herder, 1949—On Spiritual Creatures, by M. G. Fitzpatrick and J. J. Wellmuth
SJ., Marquette Univ. ... G. Smith S.J., Natural Theology, New York, Macmillan,
1951 (an excellent introduction to the metaphysics of Saint Thomas). ... On the
Aristotelian background of Thomism, J. Owens, CSSR., The Doctrine of Being in
the Aristotelian “Metaphysics. ... In the preceding paragraphs, struggling for
words to express the permanency of hea ..."
"The highly regarded French philosopher, ?tienne Gilson, brilliantly plumbs the depths of Thomistic Realism, and false Thomisms as well, in this answer to Kantian modernism. The important work, exquisitely translated by Mark Wauck, brings the essential elements of philosophy into view as a cohesive, readily understandable, and erudite structure, and does so rigorously in the best tradition of St. Thomas. Written as the definitive answer ..."
"Etienne Gilson The best summary of this book is in the authors words from the forword: "It is the proper aim and scope of the present book to show that the history of philosophy makes philosophical sense, and to define its meaning in regard to the nature of philosophical knowledge itself. For that reason, the various doctrines, as well as the definite parts of these doctrines, which have been taken into account in this volume, should no ..."
"This short book is a work of one of the 20th century's greatest philosophers and historians of philosophy, Etienne Gilson. The book's title, taken from the first chapter, may sound esoteric but it reflects a common-sense outlook on the world, applied in a "methodical" way. That approach, known as realism, consists in emphasizing the fact that what is real precedes our concepts about it. In contrast to realism stands idealism, which refe ..."
"Cataloging-in-Publication Data available from the Library of Congress isBn 978-0-8132-3325-3 1. See Earl Boyea, Gabriel Richard: Servant of God (Ann."
"Étienne Gilson's Jean Duns Scot: Introduction À Ses Positions Fondamentales is widely understood to be one of the most important works on John Duns Scotus' texts, famous for their complexity. James Colbert's translation is the first time that Gilson's work on Scotus has been put into English, with an introduction by Trent Pomplun and an afterword by John Millbank. Scotus contributed to the development of a metaphysical system that was c ..."
"Etienne Gilson Reason and Revelation in the Middle Ages, first delivered as the Richard Lectures in 1937, was published in 1938 and became an immediate success."
God and Philosophy(1st Edition) by EtienneGilson Hardcover, 165 Pages, Published 1941 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-00491-5, ISBN: 0-300-00491-5
"In this classic work, the eminent Catholic philosopher Etienne Gilson deals with one of the most important and perplexing metaphysical problems: the relation between our notion of God and demonstrations of his existence. Gilson examines Greek, Christian, and modern philosophy as well as the thinking that has grown out of our age of science in this fundamental analysis of the problem of God."
"In this translation of Etienne Gilson's well known work L'esprit de la philosophie medievale, he undertakes the task of defining the spirit of mediaeval philosophy. Gilson asks whether we can form the concept of a Christian philosophy and, second, whether mediaeval philosophy is not precisely its most adequate historical expression. He maintains that the spirit of mediaeval philosophy is the spirit of Christianity penetrating the Greek ..."
"In this final edition of his classic study of St. Thomas Aquinas, Etienne Gilson presents the sweeping range and organic unity of Thomistic philosophical thought. The philosophical thinking of Aquinas is the result of reason being challenged to relate to many theological conceptions of the Christian tradition. Gilson carefully reviews how Aquinas grapples with the relation itself of faith and reason and continuing through the existence ..."
God and Philosophy (The Powell Lectures Series) by EtienneGilson Paperback, 165 Pages, Published 1959 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-00097-9, ISBN: 0-300-00097-9
"These four lectures deal with but one aspect of the highest of all metaphysical problems, and they deal with it on the basis of but a very limited number of historical facts, themselves rather taken for granted than technically established."
Heloise and Abelard(1st Edition) (Ann Arbor Paperbacks) by EtienneGilson Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 1960 by University Of Michigan Press ISBN-13: 978-0-472-06038-2, ISBN: 0-472-06038-4
"Abelard was Abbot of Saint-Gildas in 1127. See La Correspondence litteraire, I (5
Mars 1857), p. 1 10. 5 B. Schmeidler, "Der Briefwechsel zwischen Abelard und
Heloise eine Falschung?", Archiv. fur Kulturgeschichte, XI (1913), 1-30. Cf. p. 7,
note 1. 6 Charlotte Charrier, Heloise dans rhistoire et dans la legende (Paris, H.
Champion, 1933). Cf. "Nous adoptons pleinement 1'opinion de M. Schmeidler", p
. 13. 7 Schmeidler, op. cit., pp. ..."
"The study of being was one of the main preoccupations of Etienne Gilson's scholarly and intellectual life. Being and Some Philosophers is at once a testament to the persistence of those concerns and an important landmark in the history of the question of being. The book charts the ways in which being is translated across history, from unity in Plato and substance in Aristotle to essence in Avicenna and the act of existence in Aquinas. I ..."
"Text of 3 Richard lectures delivered by Gilson at the University of Virginia"
Le Thomisme Introduction au Système de Saint Thomas d'Aquin (Classic Reprint) (French Edition) by EtienneGilson Hardcover, 242 Pages, Published 2017 by Forgotten Books ISBN-13: 978-1-5280-6519-1, ISBN: 1-5280-6519-0
"Excerpt from Le Thomisme: Introduction au Système de Saint Thomas d'AquinSaint Thomas fit un premier séjour dans cette Université de 1245 à l eté de 1248, et il y poursuivit ses études sous la direction d'albert le Grand, dont la renommée était déjà universelle. L'emprise exercée par le maitreisur l'élève fut telle que, lorsque Albert le Grand quitta Paris pour aller organiser à Cologne un studium generale (c'est - à - dire un centre d' ..."
Le Thomisme Introduction au Système de Saint Thomas d'Aquin (Classic Reprint) (French Edition) by EtienneGilson Paperback, 244 Pages, Published 2017 by Forgotten Books ISBN-13: 978-1-332-54962-7, ISBN: 1-332-54962-4
"Excerpt from Le Thomisme: Introduction au Systeme de Saint Thomas d'Aquin Saint Thomas fit un premier sejour dans cette Universite de 1245 a l ete de 1248, et il y poursuivit ses etudes sous la direction d'albert le Grand, dont la renommee etait deja universelle. L'emprise exercee par le maitreisur l'eleve fut telle que, lorsque Albert le Grand quitta Paris pour aller organiser a Cologne un studium generale (c'est - a - dire un centre d ..."
"Theology and the Cartesian Doctrine of Freedom, now for the first time available in English, was Étienne Gilson’s doctoral thesis and part of a larger project to show the medieval roots of Descartes at a time when the very existence of medieval philosophy was often ignored. Young Descartes was sent to La Flèche, one of the Jesuits schools that offered a complete philosophical program, and Descartes would have had the same philosophical ..."