Publisher's Synopsis
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.
