W. Norris Clarke
William Norris Clarke, SJ was an American Thomist philosopher and Jesuit priest.
Positions
He was a president of the Metaphysical Society of America, as well as founder and editor of the International Philosophical Quarterly.Thought
Clarke did not allow his philosophical quest to be limited by traditional interpretations of the philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas. He insisted that:He was a major opponent of Neo-scholastic interpretations of St. Thomas and St. Anselm of Canterbury.
Books
The Philosophical Approach to God: A Contemporary Neo-Thomistic Perspective, 1979, revised edition in 2007.Person and Being 1993; reprinted with additional commentary by Ranier R. A. Ibana as Person, Being and Ecology in 1996Explorations in Metaphysics: Being-God-Person, University of Notre Dame Press, 1995- ''The One and the Many: A Contemporary Thomistic Metaphysics''
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