ABSTRACT
The distinguished House of Herder and Herder has made available in English a number of the most significant works advancing the school of thought known as Transcendental Thomism. The characteristic of being as an act, in Thomism, emerges when the philosopher takes account of the truth that every activity manifested in the dynamic flux of the real in some sense or another is. The existentiality of all activities, contrasted with the relative transcendence of being moves the mind to conclude that esse is the act of every other act and—for this very reason—the very perfection of every perfection. The consequences of this standard Thomistic position are perpetual invitations to further philosophical speculation. The performing or questioning is as eminently judicative as is answering them. Both point to judgment's function as a synthesizing or composing activity. Transcendental Thomism seems ignorant of this operation. Thomistic realism has been plagued by conceptualism as Father Lonergan well contends.
