Heinrich von Gent uber Metaphysik als erste Wissenschaft : : Studien zu einem Metaphysikentwurf aus dem letzten Viertel des 13. Jahrhunderts / / Martin Pickave.

• Superior document: Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters, Bd. 91
• Author: Pickave, Martin.
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: German
• Series: Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters ; Bd. 91.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (416 p.)
• Notes: Revision of the author's thesis--Cologne, 2003.
• Other title: Vorläufige Material /; Einleitung /; Kapitel I. \'Natürliches\' Wissen Und Die Reichweite Der Menschlichen Vernunft /; Kapitel II. Der Gegenstand Der Metaphysik /; Kapitel III. Seiendes Als Ersterkanntes Des Menschlichen Intellekts /; Kapitel IV. Seiendes Und Sache /; Kapitel V. Die Lehre Von Den Transzendentalen Eigenschaften Des Seienden /; Kapitel VI. Philosophische Gotteserkenntnis /; Konklusion /; Appendix: Zur Authentizität Des Metaphysikkommentars In Ms. Escorial H. II. 1 /; Bibliographie /; Register /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [375]-393) and indexes.
• ISBN: 1281917133; 9786611917135; 9047419073
• ISSN: 0169-8028
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Martin Pickave.

The last 30 years have seen a revived interest in Henry of Ghent, one of the leading theologians at the University of Paris in the last quarter of the 13th century. This volume offers a new and comprehensive study of a central aspect of Henry’s philosophical thought: his understanding of metaphysics. The study examines why, according to Henry, there has to be a science investigating being qua being and how such an inquiry is at all possible. In Henry’s conception, metaphysics is not just one scientific discipline among others but the first and fundamental one for it deals with the first object of the intellect as its subject-matter. The recognition of this understanding, as the present study intends to show, opens a new perspective on the proper philosophical dimension of Henry of Ghent’s thought.