Description
Olivia Blanchette charts the path of his inquiry through an analysis of reflective self-consciousness in selves communing with one another. They are constituted in their substance as a union of body and soul, with intelligence and free will that give rise to cultures in communion with other selves. These cultures are over and above what is given to each self in sense consciousness and in sense appetites and which each one contends with in the exercise of selfhood and the rights that go with that in keeping with justice. Concern for right reasoning and justice leads to an analysis of temperance and courage.
The chief arguments take the form of phenomenological reflections on the building blocks of the perennial philosophy. Blanchette recasts Aristotelian-Thomistic metaphysics from the perspective of a phenomenology of the mutual recognition of agents and the historical consciousness to which it gives rise.
About the Author
Oliva Blanchette is professor emeritus of philosophy at Boston College.
Book Information
ISBN 9780813234670
Author Oliva Blanchette
Format Paperback
Page Count 288
Imprint The Catholic University of America Press
Publisher The Catholic University of America Press
Weight(grams) 363g