dominicansoul Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 L_D, thanx for the lists!!! This is most helpful!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tnavarro61 Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 OT: I hope we have a Carmelite version of this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laudate_Dominum Posted January 31, 2011 Author Share Posted January 31, 2011 (edited) I've not read it, but I've heard great things about this book. [url="http://www.amazon.com/Aquinas-Beginners-Guide-Edward-Feser/dp/1851686908"]Aquinas: A Beginner's Guide[/url] I sometimes read the author's blog and think he's great. I'm willing to bet that his Aquinas book is fabulous. http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com Edited January 31, 2011 by Laudate_Dominum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExCorde Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 (edited) [quote name='Laudate_Dominum' timestamp='1136788039' post='850084'] And if anyone has already read all the texts presented thus far and is in need of reading ideas I would think this resource would suffice: [url="http://www.corpusthomisticum.org/izbiblio.html"]http://www.corpustho...g/izbiblio.html[/url] [/quote] ...ahem, looking through that was scary and humbling... These lists are as huge as can be, and some of those books (*cough* Summa *cough*) are gigantic themselves! Few years of work would go into all this. Ah well, it's Thomas... Here are some other good ones! [i]Thomas Aquinas: A Very Short Introduction[/i], Fergus Kerr (written by an important contemporary dominican theologian, great choice for a short first overview) [i]Saint Thomas Aquinas[/i], G.K. Chesterton (praised as the best biography) [i]Reality: A Synthesis of Thomistic Thought[/i], Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange O.P. (a great thomist, definitelly check his other works too - said to be the greatest thomist of the 20th century) [i]Aquinas's Sources: The Notre Dame Symposium[/i], Timothy L. Smith (editor) - [url="http://www.staugustine.net/aquinass%20sources.html"]StAugustine.net[/url] (to be released) I would heartily recommend Pieper's works in particular. Edited February 2, 2011 by ExCorde Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExCorde Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 There's also the work of H. D. Gardeil, [i]Introduction to the Philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas:[/i] Volume I: General Introduction and Logic Volume II: Cosmology Volume III: Psychology Volume IV: Metaphysics (volumes II & III reprinted in 2009) I've gained access to it for free and in full but only in Portuguese (oddly enough) via http://www.documentacatholicaomnia.eu/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laudate_Dominum Posted February 2, 2011 Author Share Posted February 2, 2011 [quote name='ExCorde' timestamp='1296635296' post='2207708'] ...ahem, looking through that was scary and humbling... These lists are as huge as can be, and some of those books (*cough* Summa *cough*) are gigantic themselves! Few years of work would go into all this. [/quote] Haha, yeah, that was a number of years ago but I'm sure I was being facetious. Basically saying, if you've read every mentioned in this thread (fat chance) and are bored (as if), here is the corpus thomistica. hehe. On a serious note, I've used that site many times and consider it to be an epic resource. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExCorde Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 I've actually took note of Rudolf Allers' works cited there (mostly on faculties and cognition), maybe there's a remote chance for me to one day find those magazines of the 40s and 50s... By the way, on his blog Feser recommended a set of other works on St. Aquinas' day. He directly recommends people to move from his book into [i]Real Essentialism[/i] by David Oderberg. However, there's a short article available online about his ideas: "How to Win Essence Back From Essencialists" http://www.reading.ac.uk/AcaDepts/ld/Philos/dso/papers/How%20to%20Win%20Essence%20Back.pdf And yet another freebie: "The Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Law" http://www.reading.ac.uk/AcaDepts/ld/Philos/dso/papers/The%20Metaphysical%20Foundations%20of%20Natural%20Law.pdf It's funny that it has only been last week that I heard of Oderberg for the first time, since both his non-consequentialist moral/ethics books have been translated into Portuguese. Other suggested works: [i]Aquinas: A New Introduction[/i], John Peterson [i]Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae[/i]: A Reader’s Guide, Stephen Loughlin [i]Aquinas: A Guide for the Perplexed[/i], Peter Eardley and Carl Still [i]The Oxford Handbook of Aquinas[/i], Brian Davies and Eleonore Stump (editors) (to be released) [i]Aquinas[/i], Eleonore Stump (2003) I'm only familiar with Brian Davies, but his volume would be excruciatingly expensive... ($150 USD) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatherineM Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 I'm embarrassed to admit that I have Thomas' treatise on law in my bag right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeresaBenedicta Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 [quote name='CatherineM' timestamp='1296664645' post='2207759'] I'm embarrassed to admit that I have Thomas' treatise on law in my bag right now. [/quote] What's embarrassing about that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laudate_Dominum Posted February 2, 2011 Author Share Posted February 2, 2011 [quote name='CatherineM' timestamp='1296664645' post='2207759'] I'm embarrassed to admit that I have Thomas' treatise on law in my bag right now. [/quote] [quote name='TeresaBenedicta' timestamp='1296667104' post='2207780'] What's embarrassing about that? [/quote] Yeah, that's pretty cool imo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExCorde Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 [quote name='TeresaBenedicta' timestamp='1296667104' post='2207780'] What's embarrassing about that? [/quote] It's left in the bag instead of outside being read? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dominicansoul Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 thanks for these suggestions! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExCorde Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 (edited) If you are interested in a new perspective of applied Thomism today, you shouldn't miss this: [url="http://www.amazon.com/dp/0567087107/"]Retracing Reality: A Philosophical Itinerary[/url] - Marie-Dominique Phillipe, O.P. It's on [url="http://books.google.pt/books?id=oF__ZKve70EC&printsec=frontcover&dq=retracing+reality+a+philosophical+itinerary&source=bl&ots=SJsDRNcgwS&sig=0rqYr50rBqdcRN44rOWKZBupYJY&hl=pt-PT&ei=GfJLTa3BK8ms8QO-4J3fCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBcQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false"]Google Books[/url]! (although something went terribly wrong while scanning the cover) The philosophical and spiritual mentorship of Fr. Marie-Dominique (at none other than the University of Fribourg) lead to the formation of one of the most vibrant of the new religious families, the [url="http://www.stjean.com/EN/Jeu_accueil.phphttp://www.stjean.com/EN/Jeu_accueil.php"]Community of St. John[/url] (check them out!). In this work he takes you on a very personal course through the philosophical enterprise with a renewed vision of Aquinas. I really recommend it, and if you know anything similar please let me hear about it! From the cover description: [i]This is an important work in the renewal of metaphysics called for by Pope John Paul II in Fides et Ratio (1998). A philosophical inquiry into reality in all its dimensions. 'An original attempt to think through again the meaning and inter-relation of the key ideas of Thomist metaphysics and epistemology. The author not only reveals the depth and persuasiveness of the Thomist "vision", but also extends the tradition of Thomist thought by creatively transforming it. The book will be of great interest to those already sympathetic to Thomism, as well as to teachers of philosophy looking for a synthetic statement of what philosophising in the spirit of St. Thomas might involve today.' ~Aidan Nichols OP[/i] Edited February 4, 2011 by ExCorde Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AudreyGrace Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 I recently started working my way through[i] Summa Theologica, [/i]and at a snail's pace. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeresaBenedicta Posted February 4, 2011 Share Posted February 4, 2011 A few more that I don't think I saw on the original list or elsewhere in the thread: Wisdom in the Face of Modernity: A Study in Thomistic Natural Theology by Thomas Joseph White O.P Natura Pura: On the Recovery of Nature in the Doctrine of Grace (Moral Philosophy & Moral Theology) by Steven Long Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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