Participation and Substantiality in Thomas Aquinas.
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.
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Superior document: | Studien und Texte Zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters Series ; v.46 |
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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
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 pages) |
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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.