How To Think Like Aquinas
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How To Think Like Aquinas
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Author : Kevin Vost
language : en
Publisher: Sophia Institute Press
Release Date : 2018-09-20
How To Think Like Aquinas written by Kevin Vost and has been published by Sophia Institute Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-20 with Philosophy categories.
About St. Thomas Aquinas, Pope John XXII said: “A man can derive more profit in a year from his books than from pondering all his life the teaching of others.” And Pope Pius XI added: “We now say to all who are desirous of the truth: ‘Go to St. Thomas.’ ” But when we do go to Thomas – when we open his massive Summa Theologica or another of his works – we’re quickly overwhelmed, even lost. If we find him hard to read, how can we even begin to “think like Aquinas?” Now comes Kevin Vost — the best-selling author of The One-Minute Aquinas — armed with a recently rediscovered letter St. Thomas himself wrote – a brief letter to young novice monk giving practical, sage advice about how to study, how to think, and even how to live. In this letter written almost 800 years ago, St. Thomas reveals his unique powers of intellect and will, and explains how anyone can fathom and explain even the loftiest truths. Vost and St. Thomas will teach you how to dissect logical fallacies, heresies, and half-truths that continue to pollute our world with muddy thinking. Best of all, you’ll find a fully-illustrated set of exercises to improve your intellectual powers of memory, understanding, logical reasoning, shrewdness, foresight, circumspection, and practical wisdom. You’ll also learn: The four steps to training your memoryHow to know your mental powers – and their limitsWhy critical thinking alone is insufficient for reaching the truthTwenty common fallacies – and how to spot themThe key to effectively reading any bookHow to set your intellect free by avoiding worldly entanglementsHow to commit key truths to memory Pius XI called St. Thomas Aquinas the “model” for those who want to “pursue their studies to the best advantage and with the greatest profit to themselves.” Leo XIII urged us all to “follow the example of St. Thomas.” Over the centuries, dozens of other popes have praised him. Surely it is time to listen to these good men, time to “go to Thomas,” to learn to think like him, and, yes, even to live like him.
How To Think Like An Economist
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Author : Robbie Mochrie
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2024-05-09
How To Think Like An Economist written by Robbie Mochrie and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-09 with Business & Economics categories.
Capturing the essence of history's most influential economists in enjoyable and illuminating biographical sketches, this book shows how the great economic thinkers are still relevant today. We live in the economy – and we are part of it. Living through a pandemic, governments had to work out how to put economies into a deep freeze without destroying them. Avoiding climate catastrophe means changing economies so that they don't bake the world. In explaining how economic thinking is indispensable to tackling these huge problems, this book is a sure-footed guide, spanning Aristotle's ideas about restraining consumption, Adam Smith's thinking about the importance of moral character for sustained economic development, and Esther Duflo's ongoing work to help the world's poorest communities lift themselves out of poverty. It shows how the greatest economic thinkers – Karl Marx, Maynard Keynes, and Friedrich Hayek, among many others – have enabled us to see the world differently, and how we can make it better. It shows that economic thinking emerged, long before there were economists – and that good economics is about much more than the economy, so everyone should understand these vital ideas. Along the way, the book quietly subverts what you think you know about economics, especially by showing how women found a place in the development of ideas even when discrimination denied them any formal role.
How To Think Like A Philosopher
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Author : Daniel Smith
language : en
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books
Release Date : 2021-04-22
How To Think Like A Philosopher written by Daniel Smith and has been published by Michael O'Mara Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-22 with Philosophy categories.
An exploration into the ideas and ways of thinking of some of the world's greatest minds.
The Thought Of Thomas Aquinas
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Author : Brian Davies
language : en
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Release Date : 1992-01-30
The Thought Of Thomas Aquinas written by Brian Davies and has been published by Clarendon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-01-30 with Religion categories.
Thomas Aquinas was one of the greatest Western philosphers and one of the greatest theologians of the Christian church. In this book we at last have a modern, comprehensive presentation of the total thought of Aquinas. Books on Aquinas invariably deal with either his philosophy or his theology. But Aquinas himself made no arbitrary division between his philosophical and his theological thought, and this book allows readers to see him as a whole. It introduces the full range of Aquinas' thinking; and it relates his thinking to writers both earlier and later than Aquinas himself.
Aquinas On Beauty
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Author : Christopher Scott Sevier
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Release Date : 2015-02-12
Aquinas On Beauty written by Christopher Scott Sevier and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-12 with Philosophy categories.
Aquinas on Beauty explores the nature and role of beauty in the thought of Thomas Aquinas. Beginning with a standard definition of beauty provided by Aquinas, it explores each of the components of that definition. The result is a comprehensive account of Aquinas’s formal view on the subject, supplemented by an exploration into Aquinas’s commentary on Dionysius’s Divine Names, including a comparison of his views with those of both Dionysius and those of Aquinas’s mentor, Albert the Great. The book also highlights the tight connection in Aquinas’s thought between aesthetics and ethics, and illustrates how Aquinas preserves what is best about aesthetic traditions preceding him, and anticipates what is best about aesthetic traditions that would follow, marrying objective and subjective aesthetic intuitions and charting a kind of via media between the common extremes.
Aquinas On The Beginning And End Of Human Life
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Author : Fabrizio Amerini
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2013-06-10
Aquinas On The Beginning And End Of Human Life written by Fabrizio Amerini and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-10 with Philosophy categories.
Though often invoked by pro-life supporters, Thomas Aquinas in fact held that human life begins after conception, not at the moment of union. But in following the twists and turns of Aquinas’ thinking about the beginning and end of human life, Fabrizio Amerini reaches a nuanced interpretation that will unsettle both sides in the abortion debate.
Aquinas On The Four Last Things
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Author : Kevin Vost
language : en
Publisher: Sophia Institute Press
Release Date : 2021-01-21
Aquinas On The Four Last Things written by Kevin Vost and has been published by Sophia Institute Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-21 with Religion categories.
In these pages, Dr. Kevin Vost has made readable and accessible St. Thomas's core teachings and insights on the Four Last Things and the wondrous experiences God has in store for us.
Aquinas A Guide For The Perplexed
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Author : Peter S. Eardley
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2010-01-01
Aquinas A Guide For The Perplexed written by Peter S. Eardley and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-01 with Philosophy categories.
A student's guide to the life and thought of Thomas Aquinas, the most widely read and studied medieval thinker.
My Life With Thomas Aquinas
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Author : Carol Jackson Robinson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
My Life With Thomas Aquinas written by Carol Jackson Robinson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Religion categories.
How To Think Like An Officer
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Author : Reed Bonadonna
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2020-09-01
How To Think Like An Officer written by Reed Bonadonna and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-01 with History categories.
The U.S. military invests heavily in time and resources to train its officers to be leaders in the broadest sense – forming them not only in military art and science (strategy, tactics, command, etc.), but also in humanistic knowledge, character, and values, as well as how to apply this education on a lightning-fast battlefield or within an inertially slow bureaucracy. The military develops its leaders, at the service academies and in ROTC programs, through very specific but also broad and deep education – a way of thinking that also has wide application in the civilian world, not only in various professional fields that need leaders and thinkers, but also among military history enthusiasts who want to understand how officers have thought across time and among American citizens who want – and, really, need – to understand how our military leaders think, how they advise presidents, how they lead on the battlefield. In a genre-busting book that spans Stackpole’s two longstanding military programs – reference and history – Reed Bonadonna describes how officers think, how they ought to think, how they develop their skills, and how they can improve these skills, as well as how average civilians and citizens can learn from the example of military officers and their program of education. Bonadonna draws from military history, from military arts and science, from literature and science and more, to show how officers develop their critical-thinking and problem-solving skills. A military officer is often called upon to be not only fighter and leader, but also negotiator, organizer, planner and preparer, teacher, writer, scientist, and advisor, and needs broad learning. This is a deeply learned and insightful book, one that cites Lincoln, Grant, Patton, Eisenhower, Marshall, and Churchill as easily as Sun Tzu and Clausewitz, not to mention Homer, Plato, Joseph Conrad, Henry James, Wilfred Owen, Robert Graves, George Orwell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Joseph Heller, Phil Klay, and even Jane Austen. The book is descriptive as well as prescriptive and should find eager readers inside the military (where officers take seriously their professional education and their professional reading lists) as well as outside, where many look to the military, to military reading lists, and to military history, to glean lessons for life and work.