Background
Clarke, William Norris was born on June 1, 1915 in New York City. Son of Richard Henry and Frances (Chew) Clarke.
(This book is a revised and expanded edition of three lect...)
This book is a revised and expanded edition of three lectures delivered by Clarke at Wake Forest University in 1979. Long out of print, this new edition should be a valuable resource for scholars and teachers of the philosophy of religion. The first two lectures, after a critique of the incompleteness of St. Thomas Aquinas's famous Five Ways of arguing for the existence of God, explore lesser-known resources of Aquinas's philosophical ascent of the mind to God: the unrestricted dynamism of the human spirit as it reaches toward the fullness of being and the strictly metaphysical ascent to God from finite to infinite, in the line of Aquinas's later, more Neoplatonically inspired, metaphysics of participation. The third, and most heavily revised, lecture is a critique of Whitehead's process philosophy, distinguishing Aquinas more sharply and critically from Whitehead than in the first edition.
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Clarke, William Norris was born on June 1, 1915 in New York City. Son of Richard Henry and Frances (Chew) Clarke.
Ph.L., College St. Louis, Jersey, England, 1939. Master of Arts, Fordham University, 1940. Th.L., Woodstock College, 1946.
Doctor of Philosophy, Louvain University, 1949.
Joined Society of Jesus (Jesuit). Instructor philosophy Woodstock College, 1949-1952. Assistant professor philosophy Bellarmine College, Plattsburg, New York, 1952-1955.
Assistant professor Fordham University, Bronx, 1955-1960, associate professor, 1960-1966, professor philosophy, 1966-1985, professor emeritus, from 1985.
(This book is a revised and expanded edition of three lect...)
Member Metaphys. Society of America (president 1967), American Catholic Philosophical Association (president 1968), Jesuit Philosophical Association (president 1960).