The Texture of Being: Essays in First Philosophy (Biblia.com)

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In this volume, Schmitz brings his encyclopedic knowledge of the Western philosophical tradition to bear in a wide-ranging series of essays grouped under three headings: Being, Man, and God. He brings disparate philosophical traditions into conversation, such as classical Aristotelian-Thomistic metaphysics, the modern critical rationalism of Kant, the idealist synthesis of Hegel, the postmodern...

then, is the source of an original order of consequences that is not reducible without loss to some other order, as color is not reducible without loss to wavelengths, or knowledge without loss to brain waves. Implicit in this conception of principle is that each is an original fullness, i.e., a fullness relative to the order which results from it. In reviving the conception of principle, then, I am conscious of appealing to a notion of plenitude. It is this inherent plenitude that distinguishes

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