Thomas Aquinas and Alfred North Whitehead on God‘s Action in the World

Alfred North Whitehead

Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) never wrote a comprehensive work in philosophy of education, but he occasionally delivered lectures concerned with educational policy. These incisive talks are collected in his book The Aims of Education and Other Essays. Whitehead and Dewey were contemporaries, and their ideas are in some notable respects similar. Like Dewey, Whitehead stresses the importance...

Virtues in the Theology of Thomas Aquinas

RECENT YEARS have seen the publication of studies advocating an orientation for Christian ethics based upon virtue. Stanley Hauerwas, Alasdair Maclntyre, Paul J. Wadell, Jean Porter, Daniel Mark Nelson, and others are associated with this approach. To many who had known and experienced Roman Catholic moral theology in the decades before Vatican II, this invitation to a restoration of virtue eth...

James mark Baldwin with alfred north whitehead on organic selectivity: the “novel” factor in evolution

the aim of this paper is to show how James mark Baldwin’s theory of organic selection (also known as the “Baldwin effect”) can be fruitfully integrated with alfred north whitehead’s speculative philosophy, as part of the endeavor to develop a comprehensive process-relational evolutionary cosmology. in so doing, it provides an overview of the theory of organic selection and points to several con...

Major Thomas Alfred Perry Marsh

Major Thomas Alfred Perry Marsh, R.A.M.C., whose death was reported at Deelfontein Hospital on 22nd May, 1900, was the youngest son of the late Captain Henry Godfrey Marsh, J.P., of Winterbourne Park, Gloucestershire. He was born at Blackwood, Mon., on the 23rd February, 1856, and received his professional education at University College, Bristol, and St. George's Hospital, London, and he was a...

St. Thomas Aquinas: Economics of the Just Society