Background
Sweeney, Charles Leo was born on September 22, 1918 in O'Connor, Nebraska, United States. Son of John Michael and Ellen Theresa (McDowell) Sweeney.
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In an age when appearances are often substituted for what really is, deception and falsity for honesty and truth, this metaphysics book takes things as they actually are and discovers that reality is actuality (which as subsistent is God), that philosophical knowledge in its content is caused by what is known and is objectively true. It considers goodness and beauty, human existents as individual, relational units (e.g., the family), agents and goals, chance and evil. It is in contrast with Sartrean existentialism, process philosophy, linguistic analysis, phenomenology, hermeneutics and deconstructionism.
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(Throughout the long centuries of western metaphysics the ...)
Throughout the long centuries of western metaphysics the problem of the infinite has kept surfacing in different but important ways. It had confronted Greek philosophical speculation from earliest times. It appeared in the definition of the divine attributed to Thales in Diogenes Laertius (I, 36) under the description "that which has neither beginning nor end. " It was presented on the scroll of Anaximander with enough precision to allow doxographers to transmit it in the technical terminology of the unlimited (apeiron) and the indeterminate (aoriston). The respective quanti tative and qualitative implications of these terms could hardly avoid causing trouble. The formation of the words, moreover, was clearly negative or privative in bearing. Yet in the philosophical framework the notion in its earliest use meant something highly positive, signifying fruitful content for the first principle of all the things that have positive status in the universe. These tensions could not help but make themselves felt through the course of later Greek thought. In one extreme the notion of the infinite was refined in a way that left it appropriated to the Aristotelian category of quantity. In Aristotle (Phys. III 6-8) it came to appear as essentially re quiring imperfection and lack. It meant the capacity for never-ending increase. It was always potential, never completely actualized.
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Sweeney, Charles Leo was born on September 22, 1918 in O'Connor, Nebraska, United States. Son of John Michael and Ellen Theresa (McDowell) Sweeney.
Bachelor of Arts, St. Saint Louis University, 1941; Master of Arts, St. Saint Louis University, 1945; Licentiate in Philosophy, St. Saint Louis University, 1943; Licentiate in Theology, St. Saint Louis University, 1951; Doctor of Philosophy, University Toronto, 1954.
Joined, Jesuit Order, 1936; ordained Roman Catholic priest, Jesuit Order, 1949; professor department philosophy, St. Saint Louis University, 1954-1968; research professor department philosophy, Creighton U., Omaha, 1968-1970; visiting professor, Catholic U. American School Philosophy, Washington, 1970-1972; research professor department philosophy, Loyola University, Chicago, since 1972.
(In an age when appearances are often substituted for what...)
(In an age when appearances are often substituted for what...)
(Throughout the long centuries of western metaphysics the ...)
Member Mediaeval Academy American, Société Internationale pour l'Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale, Jesuit Philosophical Association American (editor Proceedings 1960-1963, secretary 1960-1963, president 1965-1966), Society Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy, American Maritain Association, Society Christian Philosophers, American Catholic Philosophical Association (executive council 1968-1971, 79-82, vice president 1979-1980, president 1980-1981), Society Ancient Greek Philosophy, International Society Neoplatonic Studies (president American secretary 1986-1989).