Scholastic meditationsNicholas Rescher.

Rescher, Nicholas.

Scholastic meditationsNicholas Rescher. - first edition. - Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, (c)2005. - 1 online resource (x, 169 pages) - Studies in philosophy and the history of philosophy ; v. 44 .

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.



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