TY  - BOOK
AU  - Maritain, Jacques
AU  - Maritain,Jacques
TI  - An Introduction to Philosophy
SN  - 0826477178   
U1  - N80.1MJ(N02) 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - New York
PB  - Continuum International Publishing Group Inc.
N1  - includes index and biblioraphy; The Italians: Pythagoras The Eleatics: Parmenides   The Sophists and Socrates  Introduction The sophists Socrates  (a) Ethics and knowledge  (b) Irony, maieutic, dialectic  (c) Moderate intellectualism     Plato and Aristotle  The minor Socratics Plato  (a) His theory of ideas  (b) His system of philosophy  (c) Its limitations Aristotle  (a) Corrections of Plato  (b) The Aristotelian system  (c) Aristotle`s works Aristotle and St. Thomas Philosophia perennis      Definition of Philosophy  Scientific knowledge Its material object Its formal object  Conclusion I  Further considerations    Philosophy and the Special Sciences  Philosophy judges the special sciences  It governs them  It defends them  It is pre-eminently free  Further observations  Conclusion II	71  . Philosophy and Theology	72  Nature of theology	72  Theology j udges philosophy 7 3  Philosophy submits to theology its conclusions,  not its premises 74  Philosophia ancilla theologiae 75  Further considerations 76  Conclusion III	77   Philosophy and Common Sense	78  Unscientific knowledge	78  Philosophy is derived from common sense,  understood as the natural apprehension of first  principles                                                                     79  Common sense may accidentally judge  philosophy                                                                      81  	83  The method of philosophy                                           84    The Classification of Philosophy      The Main Divisions of Philosophy	89  Logic. Theoretical philosophy. Practical philosophy     89  Their objects	91  Conclusion V	93      Logic                                                                                94  Correct reasoning	94  Ideas and images                                                             94  Individual and universal                                                96    The problems of universals   Nominalism   Realism   Moderate Realism   The Philosophy of Mathematics and the Philosophy of Nature  The term body  The philosophy of mathematics  The philosophy of nature  (a) Mechanism  (b) Dynamism  (c) Hylomorphism Psychology Problem of the origin of ideas  Abstraction: Problem of human nature Conflicting schools     Criticism (Epistemology)  Being qua being Criticism Problem of truth  Conflicting schools  Scepticism   Rationalism   Moderate intellectualism Problem of the object of the intellect  Being and intelligibility       Ontology: Essence  Problems of ontology Essence  In the wide sense   In the strict sense Characteristics of this essence  Further observations  Our intellect can apprehend essence  Further observations  Essence is universal in the mind  Individual nature and matter   Individual nature   First matter   Archetypal being  Nature, essence, and quiddity   Ontology: Substance and Accident  Origin of these notions Substance  Further observations Accident  Further observations  Conflicting schools  The individuality of substance  Substantia prima, substantia secunda     Ontology: Act and Potentiality  Origin of these notions  Identity and change   Their apparent incompatibility  Solved by the concept potentiality Potency or potentiality Act  The nature of change  Act and potentiality in things  Axioms i-vii  Conflicting schools  Terminology   Material and formal   Virtual and formal (actual)   Implicit and explicit   In express act, in accomplished act  Theodicy (Natural Theology) Subsistent being itself   The Philosophy of Art Ethics  Introduction  The philosophy of art  Ethics  Divisions of ethics  Conflicting schools  Classification of philosophy
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