Benedict M. Ashley, O.P., (1915 – 2013) was emeritus professor of moral theology at Aquinas Institute of Theology, St. Louis. Among his publications are Health Care Ethics, with Kevin O'Rourke, O.P., Justice in the Church, Truth in Love, and Theologies of the Body.
“Ashley’s book is a recapitulation of a lifelong effort to reach a
comprehensive understanding of reality. It displays a high level of
scholarship, offers a voyage through the philosophical disciplines
and takes into account the metaphysical orientation of the great
religious traditions of mankind.” —The Review of Metaphysics
“This is an impressive, well-researched book, of great value. It
offers the wider philosophical community a point of entrance, by a
proponent of a certain type of Thomism, into a domain that all
philosophers think they already understand. The result is the
creation of a ‘big picture’ of human knowledge.” —Mark Johnson,
Marquette University
“In The Way toward Wisdom: An Interdisciplinary and Intercultural
Introduction to Metaphysics . . . Father Ashley explains why only
metaphysics has a legitimate claim to being the university’s
unifying academic discipline. Without it, universities have no 'way
toward wisdom’. . . . Father Ashley’s book is a gift, a patient
exposition of human wisdom, proceeding from the best of the
Catholic intellectual tradition.” —The British Columbia
Catholic
“In summarizing and synthesizing the best of Neothomism and the
range of developments of modern scientific and cultural studies,
Ashley’s work brings to a close the late modern involvement of
Thomism as ‘Neothomism’ by opening the way to a postmodern era for
philosophy and intellectual culture as a whole, an era within which
we may expect to see yet another epoch of Thomistic development . .
. ” —American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly
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