The Reverend William Norris Clarke | |
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Born | 1 June 1915 |
Died | 10 June 2008 (aged 93) |
Era | 21st-century philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
William Norris Clarke, SJ (1 June 1915 - 10 June 2008) was an American Thomist philosopher and Jesuit priest. He was a president of the Metaphysical Society of America,[1] as well as founder and editor of the International Philosophical Quarterly.
Possessing a lively personality and restless intellect, Clarke did not allow his philosophical quest to be limited by traditional interpretations of the philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas.[2] He insisted that
interpersonal phenomenologies need the ontological grounding of dynamic substance or nature as a unified center for its many relations and its self-identity through time; Thomistic metaphysics needs to enrich the data it is seeking to explain by the more detailed concrete descriptions of the actual life of real persons provided so richly by phenomenology.[3]
He was a major opponent of Neo-scholastic interpretations of Saint Thomas and Saint Anselm.[4]
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