Participation and Substantiality in Thomas Aquinas.

• Superior document: Studien und Texte Zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters Series ; v.46
• Author: te Velde, te.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 1995.; ©1995.
• Year of Publication: 1995
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studien und Texte Zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 pages)

This book offers a philosophical analysis of the main themes and problems of Aquinas' metaphysics of creation, centred on the concept of participation, the systematical meaning of which is examined in a critical discussion of the prevailing views of contemporary Thomas scholars.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- GENERAL INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE: THE TENSION BETWEEN SUBSTANCE AND PARTICIPATION -- Introduction -- I. Participation and the Question of the Good -- 1. Introduction: the De hebdomadibus Commentary -- 2. Thomas on the Meaning of Participation -- 3. The Presuppositions of Boethius's Antinomy -- 4. Boethius's Solution: Being Good as a Relation -- II. The Threefold Goodness of Created Being -- 1. Introduction: the "Communicatio Boni" -- 2. The Intrinsic Goodness of Created Being -- 3. The Threefold Sense of "Good by Participation" -- 4. The Finality of the Good -- III. Participation According to Subject and Accident -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Relationship of Subject and Accident -- 3. The Accidental Order of the Virtus -- IV. The Foundation of the Good in Being -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Convertibility Thesis according to De veritate 21. -- 3. The Sameness of Good and Being according to the Summa -- 4. Transcendental Properties and Metaphysical Separateness -- 5. The Praedicatio Concreti de Abstracto -- V. The Application of Participation to Being -- 1. The "Esse Participatum" from De veritate 21 -- 2. Avicenna on the Essence-Esse Distinction -- 3. Esse between Accidentality and Actuality -- 4. The Participational Structure of Being -- PART TWO: PARTICIPATION AND THE CAUSALITY OF CREATION -- Introduction -- VI. The Divine Similitude in Created Being -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Agens Analogicum: Creation as Ontological Fall? -- 3. Creation as Emanation and as Work of Divine Art -- 4. The Exemplarity of the Divine Essence -- VII. The Participation Argument for Creation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Meaning of Ipsum Esse Subsistens -- 3. The Argument of Creation according to the Summa -- 4. The Threefold Reduction to a First One.

VIII. The Progress of Philosophical Reason towards Creation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Progress in the Understanding of Being -- 3. The Double Composition in Material Things -- 4. The Problem of the Limitation of Being -- 5. The Creatio ex Nihilo -- IX. The Order of Causality between God and Nature -- 1. The Active Immanence of God in Nature -- 2. The Hierarchy in Causality -- 3. The Mediation of the Secondary Causality -- 4. Being as the Proper Effect of God -- X. The Community of Being and the Question of its Differentiation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Meaning of Esse Commune -- 3. Community and Actuality of Being -- 4. The Threefold Structure of Being (ens) -- PART THREE: DEGREES OF PARTICIPATION AND THE QUESTION OF SUBSTANTIAL UNITY -- Introduction -- XI. Form as Principle of the Order of Being -- 1. Introduction: the Order of the Universe -- 2. Form is Something Divine -- 3. The Principle Forma Dat Esse -- 4. The 'Non-Being' of Form -- 5. The Species of Things are like Numbers -- 6. Form as Unity of Perfection and Measure of Perfection -- XII. Form as Principle of the Unity of Being -- 1. The Controversy over the Unity of Substantial Form -- 2. The External Mediation of the Unity of Being in Avicebron -- 3. The Platonic Background of Avicebron's Thought -- 4. The Unity of Substantial Form -- 5. Real Unity and Logical Complexity of Form -- 6. Conclusion: Unity of Being and Degrees of Participation -- XIII. The Unity in God of Being, Living and Understanding -- 1. Introduction: Dionysius's "Correction" of Neo-platonism -- 2. Thomas's Transformation of the Neoplatonic Hierarchy -- 3. Some Aspects of Thomas's Interpretation of Dionysius -- 4. The Inclusion of Life and Understanding in Being -- 5. God as Unity of Being, Living, and Understanding -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index Personarum et Rerum.