Works by Steven Baldner
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- Thomas Aquinas: Basic Philosophical Writing: From the Summa Theologiae and the Principles of Nature.Steven Baldner (ed.) -2018 - Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press.This volume contains new translations of the essential philosophical writings of Thomas Aquinas, from the _Summa Theologiae_ and _The Principles of Nature_. The included texts represent the breadth of Aquinas’s thought, addressing causality, the fundamental principles of nature, the existence of God, how God can be known, how language can be used to describe God, human nature, happiness, ethics, and natural law. The goal of these translations is twofold: to allow Aquinas to speak for himself, but also to make his (...) thought accessible to the contemporary reader without the burden of unnecessary adherence to convention. A thorough introduction to Aquinas and his ideas is included, as is a series of useful appendices connecting Aquinas’s arguments to those of Anselm, Scotus, Ockham, and others. (shrink)No categories
- The common things : essays on Thomism and education, Ed. by Daniel Mclnemy; with an introduction by Benedict M. Ashley.Steven Baldner -2001 -Maritain Studies/Etudes Maritainiennes 17:125-128.
- St. Albert the great and st. Thomas Aquinas on the presence of elements in compounds.Steven Baldner -1999 -Sapientia 54 (205):41-57.Export citation
Bookmark - (1 other version)St. Bonaventure on the Temporal Beginning of the World.Steven Baldner -1989 -New Scholasticism 63 (2):206-228.
- Thomas Aquinas on celestial matter.Steven Baldner -2004 -The Thomist 68 (3):431-467.
- (Ed.) Roman T. Ciapalo, Postmodernism and Christian Philosophy.Steven Baldner -2002 -Maritain Studies/Etudes Maritainiennes 18:134-136.
- Is St. Albert the Great a Dualist on Human Nature?Steven Baldner -1993 -Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 67:219-229.No categories
- Albertus magnus and the categorization of motion.Steven Baldner -2006 -The Thomist 70 (2):203-235.Export citation Bookmark
- Albertus Magnus on Creation in advance.Steven Baldner -forthcoming -American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly.
- Albertus Magnus on Creation: Why Philosophy Is Inadequate.Steven Baldner -2014 -American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 88 (1):63-79.Albert the Great does not regard the creation of the world as philosophically demonstrable. In this article, it is shown why this is so: because Albert regards the temporal beginning of the world as essential to the meaning of creation, and because he holds that it is impossible to demonstrate the temporal beginning of the world, he concludes that the creation of the world is philosophically indemonstrable. Albert insists that creation must imply a temporal beginning because he thinks that temporal (...) duration can only be created if it is created at a first instant. Albert’s position necessitates a sharp distinction between creation and conservation. Particular attention is given to Albert’s De causis et processu universitatis and Summa theologiae. (shrink)No categories
- Descartes as Catholic Philosopher and Natural Philosopher in advance.Steven Baldner -forthcoming -Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association.
- Descartes as Catholic Philosopher and Natural Philosopher.Steven Baldner -2015 -Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 89:287-298.A Catholic philosophy requires an account of God as the first cause of all being. Descartes provides this, but he does so at a high price, for his Creator of ontologically and causally independent moments of creaturely existence precludes all secondary causes. Descartes’s philosophy thus results in occasionalism, which I try to show is the unhappy result of errors in natural philosophy concerning material forms and duration. Suarez provides a contrasting scholastic account of creation, showing how novel, and problematic, Descartes’s (...) position is. (shrink)No categories
- Etienne Gilson, Linguistics and Philosophy: An Essay on the Philosophical Constants of Language Reviewed by.Steven Baldner -1990 -Philosophy in Review 10 (12):495-498.Export citation Bookmark
- (1 other version)Leonard A. Kennedy and Jack Marler, eds., Thomistic Papers II Reviewed by.Steven Baldner -1986 -Philosophy in Review 6 (10):492-493.No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- Olivia Blanchette, The Perfection of the Universe According to Aquinas: A Teleological Cosmology Reviewed by.Steven Baldner -1992 -Philosophy in Review 12 (5):311-312.Export citation Bookmark
- St. Albert the Great on the Union of the Human Soul and Body.Steven Baldner -1996 -American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 70 (1):103-120.
- St. Bonaventure and the Demonstrability of a Temporal Beginning.Steven Baldner -1997 -American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 71 (2):225-236.
- Thomas Aquinas and Natural Inclination in Non-Living Nature.Steven Baldner -2018 -Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 92:211-222.Thomas Aquinas recognizes natural inclination to be present everywhere in nature, and this inclination is always toward what is good both for the natural thing itself and also for the universe as a whole. Thomas’s primary example of natural inclination is found in the four simple elements, which have natural inclinations to their natural places. The inclination of these non-living elements is then the basis for understanding that natural human inclinations are towards goods for the human person and that the (...) whole world shows a universal intelligent ordering toward what is good. I argue, however, that the natural inclination of non-living, natural bodies to ends that are good for the elements themselves makes good sense in Thomas’s cosmology, but not in ours. Natural substances still show finality in our cosmos, but in a more restricted way than what Thomas was able to find. (shrink)No categories
- Thomas Aquinas and Francisco Suarez on the Problem of Concurrence.Steven Baldner -unknown -Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association:149-161.Thomas and Suarez understand God’s creation and conservation in a similar way: as God’s continually giving being to all creatures. The two philosophers also try to explain the way in which creaturely, secondary causality is guaranteed, but they do so in radically different ways. Suarez’s doctrine of concurrence is not a progressive development of Thomas’s doctrine of secondary, instrumental causality, with which this Suarezian innovation is incompatible. I try to show how different concurrentism is from Thomas’s doctrine of secondary causality (...) and to offer some criticism of the former by the latter. (shrink)
- The Eternity of the World in the Thought of Thomas Aquinas and his Contemporaries ed. by J. B. M. Wissink.Steven Baldner -1993 -The Thomist 57 (1):146-149.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:146 BOOK REVIEWS the years passed since Father Garrigou-Lagrange last published his De Revelatione would have allowed Thomistic scholars to retrieve and de· velop Aquinas's theological insights in their fullness. The danger of apologetics is that it can lead one to develop a teaching only along the lines set by those challenging the traditional teaching of the Church. In this particular instance, the Catholic apologists of the antimodernist period (...) were led to overstress the epistemological dimension of the theology of Revelation, leaving unstated that for Saint Thomas the primary term of analysis in this question is the knowledge of God. The need of Revelation for Saint Thomas stems from the call to man to share in the beatific vision. A paper on the relation of finality between faith and the beatific vision would have underlined the originality and true significance of the Thomistic tradition in theology. Saint John's Priory Laredo, Texas JOSEPH D'AMECOURT, F.J. The Eternity of the World in the Thought of Thomas Aquinas and his Contemporaries. Edited by J. B. M. WISSINK. Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters, edited by A. ZIMMERMAN, vol. 27. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1990. Pp. viii+ 100. $28.75 (paper). This volume contains six short studies by five different scholars from the Netherlands on a topic accurately indicated by its title. These studies are a product of a symposium held by the Thomas Aquinas Workgroup, a scholarly association dedicated to investigating the thesis " that Aquinas first of all has to be understood as a theologian " and to " a rediscovery of the original Aquinas and his authentic thought" (p. vii). The topic chosen for these studies is a suitable one for the aims of the Workgroup, for it is one that requires a clear dis· tinction to be made between the realms of philosophy and theology, and it is one that has generated much interest and dispute-in the Middle Ages no less than today. This small collection of studies makes a con· tribution to scholarship, although there are weaknesses in some of the studies, as I shall note. F. J. A. de Grijs (pp. 1-8) argues that Thomas's purpose in writing the De aeternitate mundi was theological rather than philosophical in that Thomas provides a meditation on the meaning of eternity. This meditation, so de Grijs argues, is not only about the temporal eternity of the world but is even more about God's eternity. It shows us how BOOK REVIEWS 147 little we grasp of God's duration, or how we do not understand it rather than how we do understand it. J. A. Aertsen (pp. 9-19) ·responds to de Grijs by arguing that the work has a philosophical character. First, Aertsen explains, the fact that Thomas begins the De aeternitate mundi with the supposition on faith that the world had a temporal beginning in the past does not of itself (as de Grijs had thought) mean that the work is theological. Rather, it simply means that all believers agree that in fact the world had a temporal beginning, but the question at issue remains a philosophical one: could the world possibly have existed eternally in the past? Second, Aertsen points out that the reasoning in the De aeternitate mundi is much like that of Thomas's Disputed Question De potentia Dei, q. 3, a. 14, which has an explicitly philosophical character. Third, Thomas has already made it clear in his Commentary on the Sentences, bk. 2, d. 1, q. 1, a. 2, that the doctrine of creation, excluding the part of the doctrine that the world had a temporal beginning, is philosophically knowable in principle and known to philosophers in fact. Since the fact of creation is philosophically knowable and can he demonstrated without prejudice to the question of eternity, it cannot he said that an eternal past existence is incompatible with creation. Hence, the question of the compatibility of being eternal and being created-the very question for the De aeternitate mundi-is regarded by Thomas as philosophical rather than as theological. Aertsen's criticisms of de Grijs are sound, yet de Grijs's central point can he saved. De Grijs... (shrink)No categories
- The Past Just Ain’t What it Used to be: A Response to Kevin Staley and Ronald Tacelli, S.J.Steven Baldner -1992 -Lyceum 4 (2):1-4.No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- The Soul in the Explanation of Life: Aristotle Against Reductionism.Steven Baldner -1991 -Lyceum 3 (2):1-14.
- Albert’s Physics.David Twetten,Steven Baldner &Steven C. Snyder -unknown
- Introduction to Albert’s Philosophical Work.David Twetten &Steven Baldner -unknownNo categories
- Francisco Suarez, On Creation, Conservation, and Concurrence (Metaphysical Disputations 20, 21, and 22). Translated and Edited by Alfred J. Freddoso. [REVIEW]Steven Baldner -2004 -Maritain Studies/Etudes Maritainiennes 20:168-173.
- A Thomistic Tapestry: Essays in Memory of Etienne Gilson. Ed. Peter A. Redpath. [REVIEW]Steven Baldner -2004 -Maritain Studies/Etudes Maritainiennes 20:164-168.This book, written by well-known students of Étienne Gilson and especially dedicated to Armand A. Maurer, helps inaugurate a long-overdue special series in philosophy honoring Gilson’s legendary scholarship. It presents wide-ranging expositions of Thomist realism in the tradition of Gilsonian humanism covering themes related to philosophy in general, historical method, aesthetics, metaphysics, epistemology, and politics.
- Aristotle’s Metaphysics Lambda: Symposium Aristotelicum. [REVIEW]Steven Baldner -2002 -Review of Metaphysics 56 (2):417-418.This volume contains eleven articles, one on each chapter of book Lambda and two on chapter 9, all by eminent scholars who were all participants at the fourteenth Symposium Aristotelicum. The resultant articles contain close textual analysis, discussions of scholarly debates, and philosophical argument.
- Being and Knowing. [REVIEW]Steven Baldner -1995 -American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 69 (3):512-515.
- David Braine, The Human Person: Animal and Spirit. [REVIEW]Steven Baldner -1994 -Philosophy in Review 14:381-383.Export citation Bookmark
- Nature and Motion in the Middle Ages. [REVIEW]Steven Baldner -1988 -New Scholasticism 62 (4):479-483.
- Neither Brain nor Ghost. [REVIEW]Steven Baldner -2006 -Review of Metaphysics 60 (2):419-421.
- Nicholas Maxwell, In Praise of Natural Philosophy. [REVIEW]Steven Baldner -2018 -Maritain Studies/Etudes Maritainiennes 34:125-129.No categories
- Review. [REVIEW]Steven Baldner -1999 -The Thomist 63:659-662.No categoriesExport citation Bookmark
- Substance and Modern Science. [REVIEW]Steven Baldner -1990 -American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 64 (4):569-571.
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