W. Norris Clarke Explained

Region:	Western philosophy
Era:	21st-century philosophy
William Norris Clarke
Birth Date:	1 June 1915
Death Date:	10 June 2008 (aged 93)
Honorific Prefix:	The Reverend
Honorific Suffix:	SJ

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

He was a major opponent of Neo-scholastic interpretations of Saint Thomas and Saint Anselm.^[3]

Books

• The Philosophical Approach to God: A Contemporary Neo-Thomistic Perspective, 1979, revised edition in 2007.
• Person and Being 1993; reprinted with additional commentary by Ranier R. A. Ibana as Person, Being and Ecology in 1996
• Explorations in Metaphysics: Being-God-Person, University of Notre Dame Press, 1995
• The One and the Many: A Contemporary Thomistic Metaphysics (2001)

Media

• A Taste of Existence with W. Norris Clarke
• A Creative Retrieval of Thomism with W. Norris Clarke, S.J.
• A Reflection on God's Existence, by Fr. Norris Clarke

Notes and References

1. Web site: W. Norris Clarke .
2. David Paternostro, S.J., "Getting Personal: The philosophy of W. Norris Clarke, S.J.", America, April 29, 2015
3. Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: Live Reading #1 - Reason Fulfilled by Revelation: The 1930s Christian Philosophy Debates in France . YouTube.