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26 de sept. de 2002 · Aquinas's account of being is famous and influential: but Kenny argues that it in fact suffers from systematic confusion. Because of the centrality of the doctrine, this has implications for other parts of Aquinas's philosophical system: in particular, Kenny shows that the idea that God is pure being is a hindrance, not a help, to Aquinas's natural theology.
2013 •. Gyula Klima. Post-Fregean Common Wisdom about Being, Unity and Identity These are some of the things we nowadays learn about the notions of being or existence, 1 identity and unity, through being exposed to any standard system of post-Fregean predicate logic and the related philosophical literature.
Aquinas: Metaphysics. Metaphysics is taken by Thomas Aquinas to be the study of being qua being, that is, a study of the most fundamental aspects of being that constitute a being and without which it could not be. Aquinas’s metaphysical thought follows a modified but general Aristotelian view. Primarily, for Aquinas, a thing cannot be unless it possesses an act of being, and the thing that ...
18 de mar. de 2021 · On being and essence by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274. Publication date 1968 Topics Thomas von Aquin, Heiliger 1225-1274 De ente et essentia, Ontology -- Early works to 1800, Substance (Philosophy) -- Early works to 1800, Ontology, Substance (Philosophy), Essentia, Filosofia medieval, Filosofia crist ...
229 AQUINAS ON BEING AND ESSENCE quid erat esse], that is to say, that on account of which something is what it is.It is also called “form,” because “form” signifies the perfection and determinate character [certitudo] of everything, as Avicenna says in Book 2 of his Metaphysics.9 It is also called “nature,” taking “nature” in the first of the four senses assigned to it by ...
In the final chapters, Hughes discusses Aquinas’s account of the existence and nature of God, and his treatment of the problem of evil, as well as his ideas about the relation of goodness to being, choice, and happiness. Aquinas on Being, Goodness, and God is essential reading for students and scholars of Aquinas, and anyone interested in ...
Being, according to Aquinas, is spoken of in two ways: the rst type of being is that by which something is postulated in reality according to one of the (Aristotelian) categories: substance, quality, quantity, etc. The second type of being is that by which the truth of propositions is signi ed (`it is true that. . . ').
