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Three Quests in Philosophy by Etienne Gilson Foreword [by  James K. Farge] This slim volume contains seven previously unpublished lectures by Etienne Gilson. [1] He delivered the first of them, “The Education of a Philosopher,” in Montréal in 1963. The next three, grouped under the title “In Quest of Species,” were delivered in Toronto in January 1972. Gilson composed the last three, which he titled “In Quest of Matter,” at his home in Cravant (Yonne), France ; but his advanced age and declining health prevented his travelling to Canada . He therefore sent them to Laurence K. Shook in Toronto with the hope that they might eventually be published. “That is why I am anxious to do the job,” wrote the late Father Armand Maurer, Gilson’s student and disciple, in 2006. [2] The first lecture was prompted when a group of students in philosophy at the Université de Montréal invited Gilson to speak at their inaugural “Semaine de Philosophie” on Tuesday, 19 March 1963. ...

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