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"Ashley's book is a recapitulation of a lifelong effort to reach a comprehensive understanding of reality. It displays a high level of scholarship, offers a voyage through the philosophical disciplines and takes into account the metaphysical orientation of the great religious traditions of mankind." - The Review of Metaphysics "This is an impressive, well-researched book, of great value. It offers the wider philosophical community a point of entrance, by a proponent of a certain type of Thomism, into a domain that all philosophers think they already understand. The result is the creation of a 'big picture' of human knowledge." - Mark Johnson, Marquette University"

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Once thought to be the task of metaphysics, the synthesis of knowledge has been discounted by many philosophers today. Benedict Ashley, a leading Thomistic scholar, argues that it remains a valid and intellectually fruitful pursuit by situating metaphysics as an endeavor that must cross disciplinary and cultural boundaries.Working from a realist Thomistic epistemology, Ashley asserts that we must begin our search for wisdom in the natural sciences; only then, he believes, can we ensure that our claims about immaterial and invisible things are rooted in reliable experience of the material. Any attempt to share wisdom, he insists, must derive from a context that is both interdisciplinary and intercultural. Ashley offers an ambitious analysis and synthesis of major historical contributions to the unification of knowledge, including non-Western traditions. Beginning with the question "Metaphysics: Nonsense or Wisdom?" Ashley moves from a critical examination of the foundations of modern science to quantum physics and the Big Bang; from Aristotle's theory of being and change, through Aquinas's five ways, to a critical analysis of modern and postmodern thought. Ashley is able to interweave the approaches of the great philosophers by demonstrating their contributions to philosophical thought in a concrete, specific manner. In the process, he accounts for a contemporary culture overwhelmed by the fragmentation of data and thirsting for an utterly transcendent yet personal God. The capstone of a remarkable career, The Way Toward Wisdom will be welcomed by students in philosophy and theology.

Author Biography

Benedict M. Ashley, O.P., (1915 – 2013) was emeritus professor of moral theology at Aquinas Institute of Theology, St. Louis. Among his publications are Health Care Ethics, with Kevin O'Rourke, O.P., Justice in the Church, Truth in Love, and Theologies of the Body.

Review

"Ashley's book is a recapitulation of a lifelong effort to reach a comprehensive understanding of reality. It displays a high level of scholarship, offers a voyage through the philosophical disciplines and takes into account the metaphysical orientation of the great religious traditions of mankind." —The Review of Metaphysics"This is an impressive, well-researched book, of great value. It offers the wider philosophical community a point of entrance, by a proponent of a certain type of Thomism, into a domain that all philosophers think they already understand. The result is the creation of a 'big picture' of human knowledge." —Mark Johnson, Marquette University"In The Way toward Wisdom: An Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Introduction to Metaphysics . . . Father Ashley explains why only metaphysics has a legitimate claim to being the university's unifying academic discipline. Without it, universities have no 'way toward wisdom'. . . . Father Ashley's book is a gift, a patient exposition of human wisdom, proceeding from the best of the Catholic intellectual tradition." —The British Columbia Catholic"In summarizing and synthesizing the best of Neothomism and the range of developments of modern scientific and cultural studies, Ashley's work brings to a close the late modern involvement of Thomism as 'Neothomism' by opening the way to a postmodern era for philosophy and intellectual culture as a whole, an era within which we may expect to see yet another epoch of Thomistic development . . . " —American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly

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"This is an impressive, well-researched book, of great value. It offers the wider philosophical community a point of entrance, by a proponent of a certain type of Thomism, into a domain that all philosophers think they already understand. The result is the creation of a 'big picture' of human knowledge." --Mark Johnson, Marquette University

Details ISBN0268020353 Short Title WAY TOWARD WISDOM Publisher University of Notre Dame Press Language English ISBN-10 0268020353 ISBN-13 9780268020354 Media Book Format Paperback Series Thomistic Studies Year 2009 Imprint University of Notre Dame Press Subtitle An Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Introduction to Metaphysics Place of Publication Notre Dame IN Country of Publication United States Author Benedict M. Ashley DEWEY 110 Residence St Louis, MO, US Publication Date 2009-08-15 UK Release Date 2009-08-15 AU Release Date 2009-08-15 NZ Release Date 2009-08-15 US Release Date 2009-08-15 Pages 640 Alternative 9780268020286 Audience Undergraduate Illustrations 7 Charts We've got this

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