Realism Revisited : A Contemporary Understanding of Thomistic Epistemology / Joshy Paramthottu.

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The Point of Departure Relevance of the Study The Point of Arrival: Emergence of Critical Realism The Methodology Aquinas` Aristotelianism THOMISTIC EPISTEMOLOGY: THE REALISM MAN: A COMPOSITE BEING VEGETATIVE POWER SENSITIVE POWER The External Senses Internal Sense Starting Point: Senses and Sense Object Cognition and Sense-Perception INTELLECTUAL POWER Agent or Active Intellect Passive or Possible Intellect Plurality of Abstractive Intellects Intellect and Memory Intellect and Reason Operations and Objects of Intellect THE PROCESS OF KNOWLEDGE The Role of Sensation Sensible Species The Role of Intellection in Human Cognition Abstraction of Intelligible Species The Range of Abstractive Powers and Processes 47 Subject-Object Synthesis in Thomistic Epistemology 49 TOTAL MAN IN THE KNOWING PROCESS ALTERNATIVES TO REALISTIC EPISTEMOLOGY DESCARTES`PRESUPPOSITIONS 57 Cogito Ergo Sum 62 Clear and Distinct Idea 63 Knowledge is not Ultimately Sense-Knowledge 65 EMPIRICIST TRANSITION FROM REALISM John Locke George Berkeley David Hume IMMANUEL KANT The Synthesis Kant`s Epistemology Synthetic Apriori Judgement Categories of Intellect Kant`s Idealism: Transition from Realism ATTEMPT AT REVIVAL: CONTEMPORARY THOMISTIC TRENDS CRITICAL REALISM OF MARITAIN: A NEW TURN IN THOMISTIC EPISTEMOLOGY MARITAIN`S DEFENCE OF REALISM Thing and Object 99 Judgement in Maritain and Descartes 103 The Problem of Thing and Object in Idealism 106 Thing as Measure of Mind 107 Hidden Teleological Agenda 108 The Reality of Three Grammatical Subjects 110 The Hypothesis of Pure Spirit and the Intellect of Man112 Descartes, Empiricist and Kant on Trial 116 Sc/o Aliquid Esse 119 The Inner Nature of Knowledge Metaphysics of Concept The Formal and Objective Concepts The Universe of Existence and the Being of Reason Analogy in Epistemology EVALUATION AND CONCLUSION NATURAL AND METAPHYSICAL KNOWLEDGE DEGREES OF SUPRARATIONAL KNOWLEDGE REALISM: ALL INCLUSIVE REALISM: A VALID SYNTHESIS REALISM: COMMON-SENSICAL, UNDERSTANDABLE AND VIABLE EXISTENCE: THE ULTIMATE CRITERIA OF TRUTH REALISM: UPDATED A WORD ON RELEVANCE