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Philosophical & Epistemological Works of Petrus Hubertus Jacobus Hoenen, S.J. (1880–1961)

Digital critical editions, multi-track parallel translations, and prosopographical, bibliographic, and technical glossary apparatus for the works of Fr. Peter Hoenen, S.J., Professor of Cosmology and Natural Philosophy at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, published with the Book Codex engine of photon-platform/publish.


Works (Opera)

De Noetica Geometriae: Origine Theoriae Cognitionis (1954)

Analecta Gregoriana, Vol. LXIII, Series Facultatis Philosophicae, Sectio A (n. 5). Romae: Apud Aedes Universitatis Gregorianae, 1954.

Hoenen’s crowning epistemological treatise investigating the origin of geometric knowledge through Aristotelian-Thomistic intuitive formal abstraction from the phantasm (abstractio formalis intuitiva and materia intelligibilis) in dialogue with modern axiomatics, non-Euclidean geometry, and the foundations of mathematics.


Historical Context & Documentation