Participation and Substantiality in Thomas AquinasBRILL, 1995 - 290 páginas "Participation and Substantiality in Thomas Aquinas" presents a comprehensive and penetrating account of Aquinas' metaphysics of creation. Its main focus is the concept of participation of being. On the basis of a detailed textual analysis a philosophical interpretation is offered of the main concepts and arguments which underlie Thomas' theocentric understanding of reality. The central unifying theme of the book is the apparent tension between the notion of participation (central to the Platonic tradition) and that of substance (central to the Aristotelian tradition). The author argues that Aquinas is quite successful in bringing together in his metaphysics on the one hand the substantiality of finite beings and on the other hand their total dependency upon the divine being by way of participation. The author defends his interpretation in a critical discussion of the views on participation brought forward by well-known Aquinas scholars such as Geiger and Fabro. |
Contenido
Introduction | 3 |
The Threefold Goodness of Created Being | 21 |
Participation According to Subject and Accident | 35 |
Introduction | 44 |
The Application of Participation to Being | 66 |
117 | 90 |
The Progress of Philosophical Reason towards | 134 |
49 | 156 |
The Community of Being and the Question of | 184 |
Introduction | 209 |
Form as Principle of the Unity of Being | 234 |
The Unity in God of Being Living and Understanding | 254 |
Epilogue | 280 |
62 | 281 |
288 | |
289 | |
Términos y frases comunes
accidental according actuality actus agens aliqua aliquid aliud Aquinas Aquinas's Aristotelian Aristotle autem Avicebron Avicenna Boethius Boethius's bona bonum causa causality cause causis common composition concept created creation creature determinate Deus dicere dicitur distinction diversity divine effect eius enim ergo essence essentia essential etiam existence Fabro finite forma genus God's habet hebdomadibus Ibid id quod idea identity ideo igitur immanent insofar intellect ipsa ipsum ipsum esse John the Deacon magis matter means mediated metaphysical modo modum nature Neoplatonic nihil nisi omne omnia oportet participat participation participationem particular perfection philosophical Plato potency potentia potest predicated presupposed primum principium principle quae quam quia ratio rationem reality rebus relation S.Th says secundum quod sense sicut signifies similitude Socrates species suam subsisting substance substantial form Summa theologiae sunt suum tamen things Thomas Thomas says Thomas's Thomistic transcendent understood unity universal unum virtue virtutem
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Truth in the Making: Creative Knowledge in Theology and Philosophy Robert C. Miner Sin vista previa disponible - 2004 |