Embracing Our Complexity : Thomas Aquinas and Zhu Xi on Power and the Common Good [1 ed.] 9781438458427, 9781438458410

This book discusses what a religiously grounded authority might look like from the viewpoints of the European Catholic T

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Embracing Our Complexity : Thomas Aquinas and Zhu Xi on Power and the Common Good [1 ed.]
9781438458427, 9781438458410

This volume contains nine chapters of translation, by a range of leading scholars, focusing on core themes in the philos

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Zhu Xi (1130–1200) was the preeminent Confucian thinker of the Song dynasty. This book presents the essential teachings

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This path-breaking approach to Thomas Aquinas interprets the Five Ways in the context of his theory of science. Aquinas

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This path-breaking approach to Thomas Aquinas interprets the Five Ways in the context of his theory of science. Aquinas

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If Thomas Aquinas was born in 1225 as it is commonly thought, then he died before reaching the age of fifty after produc

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Previous ed. published under title: Aquinas Bibliography: p. 265-267 Includes index

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