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Love and Friendship in the Western Tradition comprises a collection
of essays written over a 25 year period by the late Rev. Professor
James McEvoy on the theme of friendship. The book traces the
genesis and development of philosophical treatments of friendship
from Greek philosophy, through the Middle Ages, to modern and
postmodern philosophy. The collection's three major concerns are:
(1) the history of philosophical discussions of friendship; (2) the
role of friendship in the cultivation of the philosophical life;
(3) the marginalization of friendship as a theme for philosophical
reflection and practice in the modern period. As the author was
primarily a medievalist, a great deal of the focus of the essays is
on the development of the theme of friendship in the Middle Ages
(in the thought of Augustine, Aquinas, Aelred of Rievaulx, Henry of
Ghent, Robert Grosseteste, etc.). However, this focus, while a
value in itself, also serves to connect philosophical perspectives
on friendship from before and after the middle ages. It connects to
the time before inasmuch as much of the work done on friendship in
the Middle Ages is anchored in interpretations of Aristotle and
Plato, and it connects to the time after by providing a
counterpoint to the modern paradigm of what constitutes the
philosophical life. The collection combines historical with
thematic approaches to scholarship on this issue and is one of the
only books of its kind to do so. It is, perhaps, unique in its
historical sweep and will prove to be a canonical source for
further research on this topic.
Robert Grosseteste (c.1168-1253) was the initiator of the English scientific tradition, one of the first chancellors of Oxford University, and a famous teacher and commentator on the newly discovered works of Aristotle. In this book, James McEvoy provides the first general, inclusive overview of the entire range of Grosseteste's massive intellectual achievement.
This is the second volume of Maynooth Aquinas Lectures. The annual
series was founded by the late Professor James McEvoy in 1995. Its
aim is to examine the thoughts of St. Thomas Aquinas and his legacy
with a view to exploring new aspects of his philosophical and
theological writings, and to foster the interrelationship between
the sapiential tradition and contemporary concerns. The present
volume contains articles by established experts in the field, as
well as by some young scholars. The papers consider the Angelic
Doctor as a teacher and examine this prolific scholar's thought on
a wide range of topics: the Eucharist, the problem of suffering,
the meaning of being, Thomistic realism, Aquinas' lost second
Sentences commentary, virtue and the Beatitudes, and the four
cardinal virtues as an ideal ethical basis for the
practitioner-patient interaction in all its dimensions. The book
considers such questions as whether God thinks and if we are
justified in taking it for granted that Thomistic theology is
superior to the theology of the Book of sentences. It also examines
Aquinas' particular contribution to the Latin reception of
Dionysian mystical thought and draws to a close with Heidegger's
thoughts on Aquinas and God.
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