A Student's Guide to Philosophy

Ralph M McInerny

Jul 2014 · Open Road Media

About this ebook

A Student’s Guide to Philosophy examines these questions: Who is a philosopher? Can philosophical thought be avoided? What have philosophers written over the ages? And why should we care? In this critical essay, these and other questions are posed and answered by one of America’s leading philosophers, Ralph McInerny of the University of Notre Dame. Schools of thought are examined with humor and verve, and the principal works of philosophers and scholars are recommended.

About the author

Ralph McInerny was the Michael P. Grace Professor of Medieval Studies and Director of the Jacques Maritain Center at the University of Notre Dame. He earned his Ph.D. at Laval University, and was the author of The Logic of Analogy (Martinus Nijhoff, 1961), Thomism in an Age of Renewal (Doubleday, 1966), St. Thomas Aquinas (Twayne Publishers, 1977), Ethica Thomistica (Catholic University of America Press, 1982), A First Glance at St. Thomas Aquinas: A Handbook for Peeping Thomists (University of Notre Dame Press, 1990), Boethius and Aquinas (Catholic University of America Press, 1990), Aquinas on Human Action (Catholic University of America Press, 1992), The Question of Christian Ethics (Catholic University of America Press, 1993), and Aquinas Against the Averroists (Purdue University Press, 1993). Professor McInerny was a fellow of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas and past president of the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars, the American Metaphysical Society and the American Catholic Philosophical Association. In 1999-2000 Professor McInerny delivered the Gifford Lectures at the University of Glasgow.