American philosopher (1915-2008)
William Norris Clarke, SJ (1 June 1915 - 10 June 2008) was an American Thomist philosopher and Jesuit priest. He was a president of the Metaphysical Society of America,[1] as well as founder and editor of the International Philosophical Quarterly.
Possessing a lively personality and restless intellect, Clarke did not allow his philosophical quest to be limited by traditional interpretations of the philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas.[2] He insisted that
interpersonal phenomenologies need the ontological grounding of dynamic substance or nature as a unified center for its many relations and its self-identity through time; Thomistic metaphysics needs to enrich the data it is seeking to explain by the more detailed concrete descriptions of the actual life of real persons provided so richly by phenomenology.[3]
He was a major opponent of Neo-scholastic interpretations of Saint Thomas and Saint Anselm.[4]
Books
- The Philosophical Approach to God: A Contemporary Neo-Thomistic Perspective, 1979, revised edition in 2007.
- Person and Being 1993; reprinted with additional commentary by Ranier R. A. Ibana as Person, Being and Ecology in 1996
- Explorations in Metaphysics: Being-God-Person, University of Notre Dame Press, 1995
- The One and the Many: A Contemporary Thomistic Metaphysics (2001)
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