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Catholic University of America Press Aquinas and the Cry of Rachel: Thomistic Reflections on the Problem of Evil (Catholic Moral Thought (Hardcover))

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In Aquinas and the Cry of Rachel, John F. X. Knasas explores Thomas Aquinas’s philosophical thinking about evil, and brings the results into discussion with the contemporary theodicies - philosophies of the problem of evil. It examines the relation of the human person and human nature to nature as a whole.Generally speaking, possible philosophical accounts for evil are two kinds: cosmological or personal. The cosmological account has evils rebounding to the perfection of creation. The personal account would have evils suffered rebounding to the good of the sufferer. Knasas argues that for Aquinas no philosophical resolution of these two kinds of accounts is possible. This argument is based upon Aquinas’s understanding of the human as an intellector of analogical being. Such an understanding establishes two truths. First, the human is by nature only a principal part of the created whole. Second, there is the philosophically discernible possibility of supernatural elevation by the creator.Hence, as far as philosophy can discern, evil may have a natural explanation or it may have a supernatural one. The Thomistic philosopher has no answer as to why evil exists because that philosopher discerns too many possible ones. In that respect, Aquinas’s thinking on evil is similar to his thinking about the philosophical knowledge of the biblical truth of the world’s creation in time. Such a creation is one metaphysical possibility among others. Some authors that Aquinas and the Cry of Rachel considers are Anthony Flew and Albert Camus, Jacques Maritain and Charles Journet, William Rowe, Marily McCord Adams, William Hasker, John Hick, David Ray Griffin, David Hume, Diogenes Allen, J. L. Mackie, Alvin Plantinga, Richard Swinburne, Bruce Reichenbach, Brian Davies, and Eleonore Stump. Review "insightful and carefully researched book generally positive"--Michael Dodds, OP - Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology, American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly ""Simply the best extended Thomist treatment of the problem of evil of which I am aware . . . exceptionally clear and straightforward." --James G. Hanink, professor of philosophy, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA"-- About the Author John F. X. Knasas is at the Center for Thomistic Studies at the University of St. Thomas, Houston, USA.

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Brand: Catholic University of America Press
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ASIN: 0813221765
Category: Books > Subjects > Politics, Philosophy & Social Sciences > Philosophy > Ethics & Morality
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Release Date: 30 December 2013
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