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In the mid-1260s in Paris, a dispute raged that concerned the relationship between faith and the Augustinian theological tradition on the one side and secular leaning as represented by the arrival in Latin of Aristotle and various Islamic and Jewish interpreters of Aristotle on the other. Masters of the arts faculty in Paris represented the latter tradition, indicated by the phrase ""double truth theory."" In 1269, Thomas Aquinas wrote the polemical work On There Being Only One Intellect, Against the Averroists (De unitate intellectus contra averroistas). Thomas is intent on countering two views: first, that intellect is not a faculty of the soul that animates our body, and second, that there is a single intellect existing separately that suffices for all people. Brief as it is, this work puts into play all the significant strands of Thomas's teaching on man - historical doctrinal, philosophical, and theological. It is a valuable source for discussing Thomas's views on the relationship between Aristotle and Christianity and puts to rest the misleading claim that Thomas baptized Aristotle."" The introduction places the work historically and sketches the controversy to which it was a contribution. Part 2 includes the Latin Leonine text and McInerny's translation. Part 3 analyzes the basic arguments of Thomas's work and provides a series of interpretive essays meant to make Thomas accessible to today's readers.

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This work should be in every graduate philosophy collection and is recommended for larger undergraduate libraries. --Choice (08/09/2018) This is a major addition to our philosophical resources. --Alasdair MacIntyre (08/09/2018)

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RALPH McINERNY holds degrees from the St. Paul Seminary, the University of Minnesota, and Laval University. He has taught at the University of Notre Dame since 1955 and, since 1978, has been the Michael P. Grace Professor of Medieval Studies. For seven years, he was director of the Medieval Institute; since 1979, he has been director of the Jacques Maritain Center, also at the University of Notre Dame. He has published extensively as a scholar and as a fiction writer. His publications include The Question of Christian Ethics, Aquinas on Human Action, and a biography, The Very Rich Hours of Jacques Maritain. His Gifford Lectures, delivered in 1999-2000, were published under the title Characters in Search of Their Author. He is the author of the Father Dowling mysteries, the most recent of which is Blood Ties (2005), the Andrew Broom mysteries, the Sister Mary Teresa mysteries, and Irish Gilt (2005), the latest of a series of mysteries set at the University of Notre Dame. Ralph McInerny is a fellow of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas, a recipient of the Bouchercon Lifetime Achievement Award, and a member of President Bush's Committee on the Arts and Humanities.

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