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The Saint and the Atheist - Thomas Aquinas and Jean-Paul Sartre (Hardcover)
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The Saint and the Atheist - Thomas Aquinas and Jean-Paul Sartre (Hardcover)
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It is hard to think of two philosophers less alike than St. Thomas
Aquinas and Jean-Paul Sartre. Aquinas, a thirteenth-century
Dominican friar, and Sartre, a twentieth-century philosopher and
atheist, are separated by both time and religious beliefs. Yet, for
philosopher Joseph S. Catalano, the two are worth bringing together
for their shared concern with a fundamental issue: the uniqueness
of each individual person and how this uniqueness relates to our
mutual dependence on each other. When viewed in the context of one
another, Sartre broadens and deepens Aquinas's outlook, updating it
for our present planetary and social needs. Both thinkers, as
Catalano shows, bring us closer to the reality that surrounds us,
and both are centrally concerned with the place of the human within
a temporal realm and what stance we should take on our own freedom
to act and live within that realm. Catalano shows how freedom, for
Sartre, is embodied, and that this freedom further illuminates
Aquinas's notion of consciousness. Compact and open to readers of
varying backgrounds, this book represents Catalano's efforts to
bring a lifetime of work on Sartre into an accessible consideration
of philosophical questions by placing him in conversation with
Aquinas, and it serves as a primer on key ideas of both
philosophers. By bringing together these two figures, Catalano
offers a fruitful space for thinking through some of the central
questions about faith, conscience, freedom, and the meaning of
life.
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