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  • Perspectives in Philosophy Volume 2: Rethinking the Existential

  • Edward Holloway

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  • The reader will find this volume of Perspectives much easier to read than the first 
    booklet which, of its nature, was a critique of a system of philosophy, indeed of thought 
    in general, which has b...
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The reader will find this volume of Perspectives much easier to read than the first 
booklet which, of its nature, was a critique of a system of philosophy, indeed of thought 
in general, which has become irrelevant to modern knowledge and modern man. It is 
now all but abandoned, even in the schools of the Catholic Church. In that abandonment 
however much that was utterly true in basic perception has become confused to the 
grave danger of the Church, even in the presentation of her theology. One rethinks, in 
the volume, the same basic relationships of God, Man, and Matter as occupied the 
minds of the Schoolmen, and of their mighty Greek precursors. In identifying the 
"noumenon" with the "phenomenon" and repudiating the basic Idealism behind both 
Greek and Scholastic thought, it is possible to answer Immanuel Kant convincingly. Both 
Teilhard de Chardin and Karl Rahner have already troddenn the same "cosmic path" as 
we do in these meditations. Their conclusions are unacceptable to most scientists, and 
also, one thinks, to philosophers of science and to the theology of the Church. They both 
began their reflections within cosmic evolution with the identification of matter and 
intellect as grounded in one common order of being, and of energy. We do not. If one 
has the advantage of reflecting the problem of, "What is man: how much is matter and 
how much is mind?", from the viewpoint of a Unity-Law of Control and Direction unto an 
entitative climax, we can show the intimate and physical relationship between the brain 
as sheer matter, and the mind as true spirit, in the orthodox Christian sense.