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Monday, December 29, 2008
Coffey's Ontology
Readers sometimes ask me to recommend a general introduction to Aristotelian-Thomistic metaphysics. Unfortunately, the best such works are the Neo-Scholastic manuals of the pre-Vatican II period, now long out of print. Some of them, though, like R. P. Phillips' two-volume Modern Thomistic Philosophy or John McCormick's two-volume Scholastic Metaphysics, can be purchased fairly cheaply from online second-hand book dealers. Then there is Google books, through which at least one such work can be readily accessed: Peter Coffey's Ontology, or The Theory of Being: A General Introduction to Metaphysics. Enjoy.
What about Card. Mercier's A manual of modern scholastic philosophy? It's available for free from Archive.org: vol. 1 & vol. 2. Is Phillips the best, though? Thanks
ReplyDeleteThe 1st of the 2 volumes of Phillips is online for free, too: Modern Thomistic philosophy: an explanation for students (1934)
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