W. Norris Clarke

William Norris Clarke, SJ (1 June 191510 June 2008) was an American Thomist philosopher and Jesuit priest.

Positions

He was a president of the Metaphysical Society of America, as well as founder and editor of the International Philosophical Quarterly.

Thought

Clarke did not allow his philosophical quest to be limited by traditional interpretations of the philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas. He insisted that:

He was a major opponent of Neo-scholastic interpretations of St. Thomas and St. Anselm of Canterbury.

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

References