Joseph Owens presents an introduction to metaphysics designed to develop in the reader a habitus of thinking. Using original Thomistic texts and Etienne Gilson's interpretation of St. Thomas Aquinas, Owens…

Brings together a lifetime of work on the problems presented by the notion of a Christian philosophy, debates whether a Christian philosophy is possible, and outlines the steps for its…

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Cognition is a basic introductory text for college courses in the philosophy of knowledge. Joseph Owens here expands the narrowly metaphysical treatment of knowledge given in his earlier book, An…

""St. Thomas and the Future of Metaphysics: Aquinas Lecture, 1957"" is a book written by Joseph Owens that explores the significance of the medieval philosopher and theologian, St. Thomas Aquinas…

Throughout the long centuries of western metaphysics the problem of the infinite has kept surfacing in different but important ways. Yet in the philosophical framework the notion in its earliest…

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Includes Thomas Aquinas’ earliest major treatment of Gods simplicity.