This is a corrected second impression of the original bilingual
critical edition of Poinsot's work on signs completed in 1632. New
materials include a new "Foreword" by the translator and a full
table of correlations between the independent Tractatus edition and
the original Cursus Philo-sophicus from which that edition was
established. The Cursus Philosophicus was one of the two great
syntheses of Latin thought made in the lifetime of Descartes. Yet
only that of Francis Suarez in 1597, the Disputationes
Metaphysicae, was destined to be read by the early moderns. This is
a work of immense erudition that synthesizes the matter of signs
philosophy from Aristotle and his successors in Greece and Rome to
the pre-eminent St. Thomas Aquinas in the Middle Ages and so on
through the leading schools of Renaissance thought. Poinsot was
instrumental in the twentieth-century revival of Thomism led by
Jacques Maritain. His seminal Introduction to the Summa Theologiae
of Thomas Aquinas (St. Augustine's Press, 2004)
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