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A Manual of Modern Scholastic Philosophy, Vols. I & II is unavailable, but you can change that!

This two-volume manual covers all the major facets of scholastic philosophy. After an in-depth introduction to the study of philosophy, Mercier breaks down the study of scholasticism into eight major subjects. Each subject gets its own introduction and comprehensive treatment.

philosophy. So now we may proceed to give a formal definition of philosophy. .—Philosophy is the comprehensive, or synthetic, explanation of things, and may be defined as the science or understanding of all things through their simplest and most general reasons. As the knowledge of the simplest and most general reasons requires the greatest degree of mental penetration, the definition may be resolved into: The science of all things through their ultimate or deepest reasons.
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