Title Scholastic meditations / Nicholas Rescher.

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Edition	1st ed.
Description	1 online resource (x, 169 pages).
Physical Medium	polychrome
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Series	Studies in philosophy and the history of philosophy ; v. 44
	Studies in philosophy and the history of philosophy ; v. 44.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Choice without preference : the problem of "Buridan's ass" -- Nicholas of Cusa on the Koran : a fifteenth-century encounter with Islam -- On learned ignorance and the limits of knowledge -- Unanswerable questions and insolubilia -- Omniscience and our understanding of God's knowledge -- Issues of infinite regress -- Being qua being -- Nonexistents then and now -- Thomism : past, present, and future -- Respect for tradition and the Catholic philosopher today.
Summary	"The studies gathered in this volume seek to do homage to the spirit of Scholasticism. They address key issues in that tradition - some from a historical point of view, others from a more substantive standpoint."--Jacket.
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Subject	Scholasticism.
	Scholasticism.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Rescher, Nicholas. Scholastic meditations. 1st ed. Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, 2005 (DLC) 2004014859
ISBN	9780813216454 (electronic book)
	0813216451 (electronic book)
	0813214106 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
	9780813214108