Form and being studies in Thomistic metaphysics / [electronic resource] :
Lawrence Dewan.
- Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, c2006.
- xv, 265 p.
- Studies in philosophy and the history of philosophy ; v. 45 .
- Studies in philosophy and the history of philosophy ; v. 45. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-254) and indexes.
What is metaphysics? -- What does it mean to study being "as being"? -- St. Thomas and the seed of metaphysics -- St. Thomas, physics, and the principle of metaphysics -- St. Thomas and the principle of causality -- St. Thomas and analogy : the logician and the metaphysician -- The importance of substance -- St. Thomas, metaphysics, and formal causality -- St. Thomas, metaphysical procedure, and the formal cause -- St. Thomas, form, and incorruptibility -- St. Thomas and the distinction between form and esse in caused things -- Nature as a metaphysical object -- The individual as a mode of being according to Thomas Aquinas.
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