A prominent Catholic philosopher, Wilhelmsen (1923-96) presents eight essays each addressing a philosophical problem generated by history. Most of them locate that problem within its conception of som
In this text, Wilhelmsen explores the Thomistic doctrines of being and knowing and their reliance on two basic assertions of St. Thomas Aquinas’s philosophy--that metaphysics is the science of existen
Don Juan Donoso Cortes (1809-1853) is one of those rare figures whom academicians find difficult to slot into any conventional category. An eminent Spanish figure - statesman, journalist, politician,
Wilhelmsen (1923-96) hones his treatise on metaphysics without substantially altering his view of Western Christian culture. He covers the history of being in Western civilization, the problematic of
This is a reprinting of Wilhelmsen’s 1962 work of philosophy examining the existential metaphysics of St. Thomas Aquinas. In this text, the author demonstrates the long-standing influence of Thomistic