HOOKED ON PHILOSOPHY
Thomas Aquinas Made Easy

“The human mind has a natural addiction to know the truth. Attempting to satisfy that addiction is called philosophy. Today, people speak of being ‘hooked’ on drugs, on running, even on phonics. So why not ‘hooked on philosophy’? It is the most natural of all addictions.” With these words, Father O’Donnell invites his readers to the often daunting, but highly rewarding search for truth by introducing them to the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas and the various branches of philosophy studied by him: Epistemology (what we know and how we know it), Metaphysics (our idea of “being”), Theodicy (does God exist and what can we know about him), Cosmology (the study of the material universe), Psychology (the study of the human psyche), and Ethics (human behavior and the natural law). The gratification which the human mind draws from knowing the truth produces a type of euphoria which is addicting. This book will whet the reader’s appetite to delve further into the thought and works of St. Thomas Aquinas and philosophers, like Gilson, Maritain and Pope John Paul II who were so profoundly influenced by him in our own day and age.

About the Author: Robert A. O’Donnell, CSP, holds a PhD from the University of Louvain in Belgium. Presently professor of philosophy at the New York Archdiocesan Seminary, he has taught various philosophical disciplines in Washington, DC, Rome, Geneva, and Jerusalem. Readers will remember him for his running commentary on NBC of the papal visits to the United States of Popes Paul VI and John Paul II. His articles and book reviews have appeared in The New Scholasticism, The Thomist, The Catholic World and TV Guide.