Cosmology

by Édouard Hugon

Thomists have have traditionally presented philosophy and theology in St Thomas Aquinas’ own native scholastic methodology. For centuries, this methodology allowed philosophical and theological disciplines to advance by understanding ‘science' in the Aristotelian sense. Hugon’s work uses this methodology, offering formal arguments with clearly identifiable premises and conclusions, and formal objections with clearly identifiable distinctions, etc, covering all of speculative philosophy.

This manual is a true work of synthesis of seven centuries of Thomistic tradition. This translation now provides English speakers with an introduction to Thomistic philosophy that follows the scholastic scientific methodology faithfully, thus providing them with a solid means of learning the all-but-forgotten art of scholastic disputation.  Cosmology, one volume in Thomas Hugon's multi-volume work, covers the first part of natural philosophy, considering the physical world from the point of view of its efficient, material, formal, and final causes.

376 pages, Hardcover

First published September 30, 2013

About the author

Édouard Hugon (25 August 1867 – 7 February 1929), Roman Catholic Priest, French Dominican, Thomistic philosopher and theologian trusted and held in high esteem by the Holy See, from 1909 to 1929 was a professor at the Pontificium Collegium Internationale Angelicum, the future Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum, as well as a well-known author of philosophical and theological manuals within the school of traditional Thomism.

Hugon was a member of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas. On 21 March 1918 Pope Benedict XV appointed him as Consultant for the Sacred Congregation for the Oriental Church (now known as the Congregation for the Oriental Churches). In 1925 Pope Pius XI asked Hugon to work on the encyclical Quas primas on the kingship of Christ.

He was instrumental in the causes to proclaim Saint Efrem and Saint Peter Canisius Doctors of the Church, and had a determining role in the canonization of Saint Joan of Arc. Hugon was a principal collaborator of Cardinal Pietro Gasparri, the Cardinal Secretary of State, in publishing his famous Catechism.

Reviews

[Ioseph Bonifacius (Ioannes) · Rating 5 out of 5]

Letter of His Holiness Pius X
Cursus philosophiae thomisticae
“To my beloved son Edouard HUGON, priest of the Order of Preachers, Doctor in Theology at the Pontifical Angelicum College.
Pius PP. X

Beloved Son,
Greetings and Apostolic Blessings.
If the teaching of Aquinas ought anywhere to be held in the highest honor and zeal, it certainly ought to be so held by that religious family of which he was the particular light and ornament. And indeed among the members of the distinguished Dominican Order are esteemed in our memory many famous men who follow in the footsteps of such a great Doctor—a Doctor who never grows old—and who undertake to shed a brilliant light on Christian dogmas and teachings, and irrefutably to defend them.
Your Cursus philosophiae thomisticae, which We recently received from you as a gift offered in filial affection, demands that you, beloved son, be held not least among this number. For the judgments of men who are well versed in philosophy concerning you are well known, men who praise in your volumes the unadulterated teaching of Saint Thomas, and the wealth and coherence of your arguments and the clarity of your style, and who praise you particularly for applying ancient scholastic principles to shed light on new advances in philosophy and to the judicious refutation of errors.”


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[Domini Cane · Rating 5 out of 5]

This translation was clear, precise and on point.
The notes/footnotes of Dr Francisco J. Romero Carrasquillo was very helpful.
Highly recommend this book!

Looking forward to the rest of the series to be translated/published!