Mind, Truth and Teleology: An Introduction to Scholastic Philosophy

This book deals with teleology, truth, predication, knowledge and belief, universals, body and mind, soul, and reason. Its approach is integrative, scholastic, and analytic. Teleology is required to explain causality, truth, and reason. Where the measure is the goal, things measure mind in theoretical truth, and mind measures things in practical truth. Truth in mind draws our reasoning to an end. Predication shows how the problem of universals arises and how it is solved. It also impacts the problem of body and mind in that only the hylomorphic assessment of persons admits predicable relations. Reason exemplifies dialectical thought in the syllogism.