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Einstein and Aquinas: A Rapprochement

A Rapprochement

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  • © 1969

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  1. John F. Kiley
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Table of contents (4 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XLI
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  2. The Epistemology of Albert Einstein

    • John F. Kiley
    Pages 1-45

  3. A Metaphysical Analysis of Albert Einstein’s View Of Reality

    • John F. Kiley
    Pages 46-77

  4. The Metaphysical Foundations of Einstein’s Epistemology

    • John F. Kiley
    Pages 78-106

  5. Conclusions

    • John F. Kiley
    Pages 107-109

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 110-123
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Now how would things be intelligible if they did not proceed from an intelligence? In the last analy­ sis a Primal Intelligence must exist, which is itself Intellection and Intelligibility in pure act, and which is the first principle of intelligibility and essences of things, and causes order to exist in them, as well as an infinitely complex network of regular relationships, whose fundamental mysterious unity our reason dreams of rediscovering in its own way. Such an approach to God's existence is a variant of Thomas Aquinas' fifth way. Its impact was secretly present in Einstein's famous saying: "God does not play dice," which, no doubt, used the word God in a merely figurative sense, and meant only: "nature does not result from a throw of the dice," yet the very fact implicitly postulated the existence of the divine Intellect. Jacques Maritain God's creation is the insistence on the dependence of "epistemology" on ontology; man's acknow­ ledgement of creation is an insistence on the episte­ mological recovery of ontology.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Einstein and Aquinas: A Rapprochement

  • Book Subtitle: A Rapprochement

  • Authors: John F. Kiley

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-3172-1

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands 1969

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-247-0081-3Published: 31 July 1970

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-3172-1Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XLI, 123

  • Topics: Pragmatism, Philosophy of Language

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