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“The human mind has a natural addiction to know the truth. Attempting to satisfy that addiction is called philosophy. Today, people speak of being ‘hooked’ on drugs, on running, even on phonics. So why not ‘hooked on philosophy’? It is the most natural of all addictions.” With these words, Father O’Donnell invites his readers to the often daunting, but highly rewarding search for truth by introducing them to the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas and the various branches of philosophy studied by him: Epistemology (what we know and how we know it), Metaphysics (our idea of “being”), Theodicy (does God exist and what can we know about him), Cosmology (the study of the material universe), Psychology (the study of the human psyche), and Ethics (human behavior and the natural law). The gratification which the human mind draws from knowing the truth produces a type of euphoria which is addicting. This book will whet the reader’s appetite to delve further into the thought and works of St. Thomas Aquinas and philosophers, like Gilson, Maritain and Pope John Paul II who were so profoundly influenced by him in our own day and age.

About the Author: Robert A. O’Donnell, CSP, holds a PhD from the University of Louvain in Belgium. Presently professor of philosophy at the New York Archdiocesan Seminary, he has taught various philosophical disciplines in Washington, DC, Rome, Geneva, and Jerusalem. Readers will remember him for his running commentary on NBC of the papal visits to the United States of Popes Paul VI and John Paul II. His articles and book reviews have appeared in The New Scholasticism, The Thomist, The Catholic World and TV Guide.

St. Thomas Aquinas

Feast Day: Roman Rite Calendar - 01/28 Tridentine Calendar - 01/28 Patron Of: Theologians, Universities, Clear Weather, Pencil Makers, Philosophers, Publishers, Scholars, Schools, Students, Against Storms, Apologists, Booksellers, Catholic Universities, Chastity, Against Lightning Also known as Angelic Doctor; Doctor Angelicus; Doctor Communis; Great Synthesizer; The Dumb Ox; The Universal Teacher Profile     Son of the Count of Aquino, born in the family castle in Lombardy near Naples. Educated by Benedictine monks at Monte Cassino, and at the University of Naples. He secretly joined the mendicant Dominican friars in 1244. His noble family kidnapped and imprisoned him for a year to keep him out of sight, and deprogram him, but he rejoined his order in 1245.     He studied in Paris from 1245-1248 under Saint Albert the Great, then accompanied Albertus to Cologne. Ordained in 1250, then returned to Paris to teach. Taught theology at University of Paris. He wrote defenses of the mendicant orders, commentaries on Aristotle and Lombard's Sentences, and some bible-related works, usually by dictating to secretaries. He won his doctorate, and taught in several Italian cities. Recalled by king and university to Paris in 1269, then recalled to Naples in 1272 where he was appointed regent of studies while working on the Summa Theologica.     On 6 December 1273 he experienced a divine revelation which so enraptured him that he abandoned the Summa, saying that it and his other writing were so much straw in the wind compared to the reality of the divine glory. He died four months later while en route to the Council of Lyons, overweight and with his health broken by overwork.     His works have been seminal to the thinking of the Church ever since. They systematized her great thoughts and teaching, and combined Greek wisdom and scholarship methods with the truth of Christianity. Pope Leo VIII commanded that his teachings be studied by all theology students. He was proclaimed Doctor of the Church in 1567. Born     c.1225 at Roccasecca, Aquino, Naples, Italy Died     7 March 1274 at Fossanuova near Terracina of apparent natural causes; relics interred at Saint-Servin, Toulouse, France; relics translated to the Church of the Jacobins, Toulouse on 22 October 1974 Canonized     1323 All information used with permission of the Patron Saint Index.

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