Foreword

• Published in: Spirit's Gift p. vii
• Main Author: Kenneth L. Schmitz
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Catholic University of America Press 01.02.2011
• Subjects: Ambiguity; Ancient philosophy; Applied sciences; Aristotelianism; Concept of being; Concept of mind; Continental philosophy; Epistemology; Freedom; Freedom of choice; Hegelianism; Historical methodology; Historiography; History; History of philosophy; Irrationalism; Jurisprudence; Law; Material properties; Materials science; Metaphilosophy; Metaphysics; Natural law; Natural rights; Ontological properties; Ontology; Optical properties; Optical reflection; Philosophy; Philosophy of law; Philosophy of mind; Radical freedom; Religion; Theology; Thought; Western philosophy
• ISBN: 9780813214436; 0813214432
• DOI: 10.2307/j.ctt28508k.3

Father Antonio López has given us a comprehensive study of an original thinker whose work is too little known in English language scholarship. He has traced with firmness and clarity both the development and the final expression of his subject’s thought. Claude Bruaire’s originality is not impaired by the wealth of philosophical and theological sources from which he weaves his reflection on being-as-spirit-and-as-gift. As Professor López keeps before the reader’s attention, the horizon within which Bruaire develops his thought is derived above all from Hegel, though not without a fundamental transformation which the present careful study continually makes clear. Central