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title	:	Person and Being Aquinas Lecture ; 1993
author	:	Clarke, W. Norris.
publisher	:	Marquette University Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0874621607
print isbn13	:	9780874621600
ebook isbn13	:	9780585168258
language	:	English
subject	Agent (Philosophy) , Ontology, Thomas,--Aquinas, Saint,--1225?-1274.
publication date	:	1993
lcc	:	BD450.C563 1993eb
ddc	:	126
subject	:	Agent (Philosophy) , Ontology, Thomas,--Aquinas, Saint,--1225?-1274.

Page i The Aquinas Lecture, 1993 Person and Being Under the Auspices of the Wisconsin-Alpha Chapter of Phi Sigma Tau by W. Norris Clarke, S.J. Marquette University Press Milwaukee 1993

Page ii Library of Congress Catalogue Number: 92-63402 Copyright 1993 Marquette University Press ISBN 0-87462-160-7

Page iii Prefatory The Wisconsin-Alpha Chapter of Phi Sigma Tau, the National Honor Society for Philosophy at Marquette University, each year invites a scholar to deliver a lecture in honor of St. Thomas Aquinas. The 1993 Aquinas Lecture, Person and Being, was delivered in the Tony and Lucille Weasler Auditorium of the Alumni Memorial Union on Sunday, February 28, 1993, by the Reverend W. Norris Clarke, S.J., Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Fordham University, The Bronx, New York, and Visiting Professor of Philosophy at Xavier Unversity, Cincinnati, Ohio. Fr. Clarke was born in New York City and attended Georgetown University before entering the Society of Jesus. He began his study of philosophy at the Collge Saint Louis on the Isle of Jersey and then earned an M.A. in philosophy at Fordham University before doing his theological studies at Woodstock College, Woodstock, Maryland, and earning his Ph.D. at the University of Louvain in 1950. Fr. Clarke taught philosophy at Fordham University from 1955 to 1985, becoming professor of philosophy in 1968 and professor emeritus in 1985. Since his retirement from Fordham University, he has been visiting professor at Santa Clara University, Villanova University, Xavier University, Wheeling Jesuit

Page iv College, Canisius College, and Immaculate Conception Seminary at Seton Hall University. Fr. Clarke was co-founder and editor-in-chief of the International Philosophical Quarterly from 1961 to 1985. He has been president of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, the Metaphysical Society of America, and the Jesuit Philosophical Association. He received the Aquinas Medal from the American Catholic Philosophical Association in 1980 for his distinguished contribution to Christian philosophy. He received the Outstanding Teacher Award from Fordham University and received an honorary degree from Villanova University. Fr. Clarke is the author of two books, The Philosophical Approach to God: A Contemporary Neo-Thomist Perspective (1979) and The Universe as Journey (1988). He has published over fifty articles and chapters in books. Among his more recent publications are: "Is a Natural Theology Still Possible Today?" "Charles Hartshone's Philosophy of God: A Thomistic Critique," ''Thomism and Contemporary Philosophical Pluralism," ''The 'We Are' of Interpersonal Dialogue as the Starting Point of Metaphysics," and "To Be Is To Be Substance-in-Relation." To Fr. Clarke's distinguished list of publications, Phi Sigma Tau is pleased to add Person and Being.

Page vii Contents Person and Being 1 Introduction 1 Chapter I. Being as Dynamic Act 6 1. Being as Active and Self-communicative 6 2. Being as Relational 13 3. Being as Receptivity, Community, Communion 20 Chapter II. Application to the Person 25 1. The Meaning of Person 25 2. The Structure of Human Nature 32 3. The Person as Self-possessing 42 4. The Person as Self-communicative and Relational 64 5. Receptivity as Complementary to Self-Communication 82

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