W. Norris Clarke

American Jesuit philosopher who developed a relational Thomism — integrating Aquinas's act-of-being metaphysics with a personalist understanding of being as essentially self-communicating.

Argued that being is essentially dynamic and self-communicating — to be is to be in relation — integrating personalist insights into the classical Thomist framework. Being is actio: the actuality of existence is expressed through action and relation.