- Tytuł:
- With a Diamond in His Shoe: Reflections on Jorge J. E. Gracia’s Quest for Self-Perfection
- Autorzy:
- Redpath*, Peter
- Powiązania:
- https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/2057094.pdf
- Data publikacji:
- 2021-12-20
- Wydawca:
- International Étienne Gilson Society
- Tematy:
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Jorge J. E. Gracia
philosophy
comparative literature
Thomism
virtual quantity
self-perfection
tradition
identity
Catholicism
religious faith
organizational psychology
ragamuffin Thomist - Opis:
- Jorge J. E. Gracia, was born in Cuba in 1942. At age 19, he escaped Cuba and arrived in the United States. In 2019, 58 years later, in a nation which, prior to his arrival in North America, had no major Latino cultural presence in higher education and philoso-phy, Gracia rose to hold the Samuel P. Capen Chair and State University of New York at Buffalo Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literature. In this position, he became the leading figure to institutionalize Latin American philosophy in the U.S. academy and an internationally-renowned scholar in medieval philosophy. Jorge J. E. Gracia died in the United States on July 13, 2021. In this paper the author shows that what properly explains the philosophical and adult-personal life of Gracia is the Thomistic principle of virtual quantity. He contends that the only way to understand Gracia’s personal and philosophical life is to grasp this life as one of an organizational psychologist pursuing perfect self-realization in action and understanding: someone chiefly interested in intellectually grasping precisely how organizational wholes (including his own psyche) become united and divided, and operate when so united and divided.
- Źródło:
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Studia Gilsoniana; 2021, 10, 4; 997-1029
2300-0066 - Pojawia się w:
- Studia Gilsoniana
- Dostawca treści:
- Biblioteka Nauki
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