St. Thomas and Philosophy; The Aquinas Lecture, 1964
Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, [1975]. First edition. Original red cloth (7 1/4 inches tall), gilt spine and front board. Fine. Item #1609
"THIS IS THE PHILOSOPHY OF ST. THOMAS IN ITS PRINCIPLES, IN ITS AIM, AND, ABOVE ALL, IN THE PERSONALIST SPIRIT OF ITS INTELLECTUALISM"
St. Thomas and Philosophy—a reprint of the book edition of the 1964 Aquinas Lecture delivered by Anton C. Pegis at Marquette University. Part of the lecture series inagurated in 1937 and published by Marquette University Press in uniform bindings.
Anton C. Pegis was an early Aquinas Lecturer, speaking on "St. Thomas and the Greeks" in 1939. Long working in the Thomist tradition, the short Prefatory notes of Pegis: "His special interest has been the Christian philosophy of man, beginning with his doctoral dissertation on the problem of the human soul. Progressively deeper analysis of this problem has led Dr. Pegis to a new appraisal of what Christian philosophy is or should be, if it were true to the mind of St. Thomas." He followed with the valuable two-volume Basic Writings of St. Thomas Aquinas (1944) and one-volume Introduction to St. Thomas (1948). Born in Milwaukee, Pegis graduated from Marquette and began his doctoral studies at the Institute of Medieval Studies in the year it was founded under Etienne Gilson. First published in 1964, this edition includes the author's original Dedication: "To Etienne Gilson / Teacher and Friend." Both Pegis and Gilson died in 1978.
This edition was printed on fine "laid" paper with the text divided into sections numbered I. — VII. Asserting that "we have many Thomisms in the modern world," his essay traces "the effect of the theological context of the thought of St. Thomas on its philosophical content" (George F. McLean). Between the two world wars Thomism "was discovered to be a Christian philosophy owing many of its ideas to theology, so that as a philosophy it could not be separated from the religious soil in which it grew." George F. McLean. Bound at the end with a publisher's list of The Aquinas Lectures, 1937-1964. An Annotated Bibliography of Philosophy in Catholic Thought, 1900-1964, 301.
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