The proceedings of the 2019 annual meeting of the American Catholic Philosophical Society contains 21 papers on natural place and rest; Aristotle's cosmology today; the philosophy of nature, metaphysics, and theology; Aristotelian natural philosophy; virtue; esse in St. Thomas Aquinas; Aristotle and modern science; and a perennial philosophy of nature. The topics include Aquinas the Avicennian: Prologue to the Commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics, perennial symmetry arguments: Aristotle's heavenly cosmology and Noether's first theorem, relation is not a category: a sketch of relation as a transcendental, divine esse without ontological significance: Jean-Luc Marion's challenge to Aquinas, and a defense of the distinction between plants and animals. Annotation ©2021 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com) Read Less