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title	:	The Truth That Frees Aquinas Lecture ; 21
author	:	Smith, Gerard.
publisher	:	Marquette University Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0874621216
print isbn13	:	9780874621211
ebook isbn13	:	9780585306377
language	:	English
subject	Truth, Liberty.
publication date	:	1956
lcc	:	BD171.S56 1956eb
ddc	:	111.83
subject	:	Truth, Liberty.

Page iii The Aquinas Lecture, 1956 The Truth That Frees Under the Auspices of the Aristotelian Society of Marquette University By Gerard Smith, S.J., Ph.D. MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY PRESS MILWAUKEE 1956

Page iv Nihil Obstat Francis C. Wade, S.J., censor deputatus Milwaukiae, die 27 mensis Februarii, 1956 Imprimatur Albertus G. Meyer Archiepiscopus Milwaukiensis Milwaukiae, die 28 mensis Februarii, 1956 Imprimi Potest Leo J. Burns, S.J. Praepositus Provincialis Provinciae Wisconsiensis Milwaukiae, die 27 mensis Februarii, 1956 Second Printing, 1957 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 56-9140 Copyright 1956 By The Aristotelian Society Of Marquette University

Page v Prefatory The Aristotelian Society of Marquette University each year invites a scholar to deliver a lecture in honor of St. Thomas Aquinas. Customarily delivered on the Sunday nearest March 7, the feast day of the Society's patron saint, these lectures are called the Aquinas lectures. In 1956 the year of the University's 75th Anniversary the Academic Vice-President of the University suggested that the Aristotelian Society invite the director of the Marquette department of philosophy, Fr. Gerard Smith, S.J., to deliver the lecture. The Society now has the pleasure of recording that lecture, given March 18 in the Brooks Memorial Union. Father Smith was born April 25, 1896 at Sioux City, Iowa. He took his A.B. at St. Louis University in 1919 and his A.M. in 1921. He studied at Ore Place, Hastings, England, at Fourvire, Lyons, France

Page vi and at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies at the University of Toronto where he received his Ph.D. in 1936. He was ordained a Jesuit priest in Dublin, Ireland, in 1927. Fr. Smith was an instructor at St. Ignatius High School and Loyola University, Chicago, 1921-24. He was head of the religion department, Marquette University, 1929-30, and instructor and associate professor of philosophy at Marquette, 1931-34, acting as regent of the School of Business Administration, 1933-34. He was associate professor of philosophy at St. Louis University, 1936-37, returned to Marquette as associate professor, 1937-45, was made professor of philosophy in 1945 and has been head of the department of philosophy since 1947. He was president of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, 1950-51. In 1955 he was awarded the Spellman Aquinas Medal by the Association. Father Smith is the author of Natural Theology (Macmillan, N.Y., 1951). His

Page vii dissertation was Molina and Liberty (U. of Toronto, 1936). He was editor of Jesuit Thinkers of the Renaissance, essays presented to Fr. John F. McCormick, S.J., by his students (Marquette University Press, Milwaukee, 1939) and of four numbers of the Highway to Heaven Series (Bruce, Milwaukee): Life of the Soul (1933), The Mass (1936), and Highway to God (1942). He is editor of the Aquinas Lecture series, and chairman of the editorial board of the Mediaeval Philosophical Texts in Translation, published by the Marquette University Press. He is also a member of the board of editors of the Christian Wisdom Series (Macmillan, N.Y.). Father Smith is the author of a large number of reviews, a long list of public addresses and lectures, and the following articles: "Avicenna and the Possibles," New Scholasticism, XVII (Oct., 1943) 340-357; also in Essays in Modern Scholasticism, in

Page viii Honor of John F. McCormick, S.J., 1874-1943, edited by Anton C. Pegis. (New-man Bookshop, Westminster, Md., 1944), pp. 116-133. "Before You Start Talking About God; Metaphysical and Epistemological Doctrines of Being," Modern Schoolman, XXIII (Nov., 1945) 24-43. "Bosanquet and the Concrete Universal," Proceedings of the Missouri Academy of Science, 1937. "Concept in St. Thomas, The," Modern Schoolman, XV (March, 1938) pp. 52-56. "Date in the History of Epistemology, A," Thomist, V (Jan., 1943) pp. 246-255; also in The Maritain Volume of the Thomist, (Sheed and Ward, New York, 1943). "Historical Approach to Philosophy, The," Proceedings of the Jesuit Philosophical Association, 1937, p. 7. "Intelligence and Liberty," Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, XVI (1940) pp. 69-85; also in New Scholasticism XV (Jan., 1941) 1-17.

Page ix "Kant's Epistemology," Modern Schoolman, XI (Nov., 1933) pp. 3-4, 6, 19-20. "Kant's Ethics," Modern Schoolman, XI (Jan., 1934) pp. 27-28, 30, 45. "Law, an Affair of Reason," Modern Schoolman, XVII (Nov., 1939) pp. 2-4, 8-9. "Luther and Free Choice," Modern Schoolman, XX (Jan., 1943) pp. 78-88. "Metaphysics and Logic," Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, XIII (1937) pp. 173-175.

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