Creation and Metaphysics: A Genetic Approach to Existential ActSpringer Netherlands, 1970 - 87 páginas During the last twenty-five years or so, studies in Thomistic existentialism have repeatedly indicated that the notion of creation played a decisive role in St. Thomas Aquinas' view of existence as an existential act or actus es sendi. The importance for metaphysics of this view of existence as act war rants an investigation of the relation between creation and actus essendi; for St. Thomas is the only one, in the history of philosophy, to have con sidered existence as an act-of-being. This study will be limited to the early works of St. Thomas. By the time of the Summa Contra Gentiles, he had reached the key positions of his metaphysics. And the first fifty-three chap ters of the Summa Contra Gentiles were written in Paris before June, 1259; 1 the rest was completed in Italy before 1265. The project was therefore con ceived by St. Thomas during the first period of his career. How the notion of creation enabled him to transform the Aristotelian metaphysics of essence into a metaphysics of esse can be seen from three sections of the Summa Contra Gentiles. Although primarily a theological treatise, the Contra Gentiles never theless accomplishes a radical metaphysical transformation of Aristotelian ism by shifting the whole perspective from esse in actu per formam to actus essendi. Seen from the perspective of existential act as the absolute perfec tion, metaphysics is raised to a strictly transcendental plane of consideration. |
Contenido
The Irreducible Value of Esse | 11 |
Two Views of Creation | 25 |
The two Orders of Causality | 50 |
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Términos y frases comunes
absolute accidental act of existing actuating actus essendi Alexander of Hales Alfarabi aliquid Aristotelian Aristotle Aristotle's autem Averroes Avicenna Causis coming-to-be creatures d'après d'Avicenne dependence Desclée de Brouwer doctrine effect emanation ence enim entity of things esse essence Essentia eternal Etienne Gilson ex nihilo existential act existential judgement Fabro faith finite genetic method Gentiles habet Heidegger Ipsum l'être La distinction Louvain Mandonnet Marquette University Press matter meta metaphysics Modern Schoolman motus Mover Neo-Platonic nisi non-being notion of creation Omnia ontological Paris Participation et causalité Philosophy physical Platonism possibility potency Potentia potest predicamental presuppose principle problem pure act quae quam quia quod real distinction reality Revue thomiste saint Thomas saint Thomas d'Aquin Scholasticism secondary agents secundum sicut Siger de Brabant subsisting Summa Theologica sunt temporal theologians théologie theory transcendental universal causes Vrin W. D. Ross whole entity William of Auvergne
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Philosophical Anthropology: A Complete Course in Scholastic Philosophy, Volumen2 Luigi Bogliolo Vista de fragmentos - 1984 |