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.