Studying Thomas

[ExCorde]

That's great, I have the first but didn't pick it up yet. It certainly fits into what's very relevant to articulate Aquinas with our current culture. I get the feeling White is really smart for his age.

He's totally on the ball here: [url="http://www.5min.com/Video/Thomas-White-on-Thomas-Aquinas-311603299"]Thomas White on Thomas Aquinas[/url]

By the way, this talk by him is AMAZING, share it with your atheist friends: [url="http://blip.tv/file/1267522%20"]Are Religious Truth Claims Intolerant?[/url]

Also have Long's [url="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1932589392"]The Teleological Grammar of the Moral Act[/url] which got some criticism in the Review of Metaphysics, but Natura Pura is too plain expensive no matter how appealing it sounds...

Edited February 4, 2011 by ExCorde

[TeresaBenedicta]

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That's great, I have the first but didn't pick it up yet. It certainly fits into what's very relevant to articulate Aquinas with our current culture. I get the feeling White is really smart for his age.

By the way, this talk by him is AMAZING, share it with your atheist friends: [url="http://blip.tv/file/1267522%20"]Are Religious Truth Claims Intolerant?[/url]

Also have Long's [url="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1932589392"]The Teleological Grammar of the Moral Act[/url] which got some criticism in the Review of Metaphysics, but Natura Pura is too plain expensive no matter how appealing it sounds...
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Long is returning a more traditional reading of Thomas, which many have abandoned.

I have [i]Natura Pura[/i] and it is a [i]great[/i] book. Seriously worth the price.

[ExCorde]

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I have [i]Natura Pura[/i] and it is a [i]great[/i] book. Seriously worth the price.
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I could buy it used... after you sold yours or something, because I can't seem to be able to order most used books to Portugal from Amazon... And this is actually available Like New for less than half the price.

[ExCorde]

What do you know about Kenneth L. Schmitz?

I just realized he has an introduction to Aquinas as well, although I could only find the audiobook version:

[url="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000GPCNVI/"]St. Thomas Aquinas: The Giants of Philosophy[/url]

[ExCorde]

I was just reading the Thomism/personalism thread and in light of Schmitz's largely anthropological work, including on John Paul II, it would be interesting to know how he explores that connection. Recently he has also explored Positive Psychology (focused not on psychopathology but on the flourishing of virtue).

[Laudate_Dominum]

I remember his Wojtyla book and thinking it was pretty good. I must still have a copy of that somewhere... Might that audio book actually be class lectures or something? I'm unfamiliar with his intro to Aquinas.

[ExCorde]

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I remember his Wojtyla book and thinking it was pretty good. I must still have a copy of that somewhere... Might that audio book actually be class lectures or something? I'm unfamiliar with his intro to Aquinas.
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I have no idea, but I can tell it has a narrator. It's part of an audio collection, The Giants of Philosophy but I can't find the source material: [url="http://www.knowledgeproducts.net/html/phil1_files/aquinas.cfm"]http://www.knowledgeproducts.net/html/phil1_files/aquinas.cfm[/url]

It's a pretty small collection, so maybe he even wrote it just for them and it never got published...