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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.
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Aristotle: Metaphysics. When Aristotle articulated the...
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Thomas Aquinas (1224/6—1274) St ... body of work, Thomas...
- Aristotle
7 de dic. de 2022 · Thomas Aquinas. First published Wed Dec 7, 2022. Between antiquity and modernity stands Thomas Aquinas (ca. 1225–1274). The greatest figure of thirteenth-century Europe in the two preeminent sciences of the era, philosophy and theology, he epitomizes the scholastic method of the newly founded universities. Like Dante or ...
8 de ago. de 2023 · The three books reviewed here concern some interrelated elements of Thomas Aquinas' metaphysics: his general theory of efficient causation, his metaphysics of the human act, and his theory of virtue. These are, if in slightly different ways, all central elements of Aquinas' philosophy.
18 de jul. de 2019 · This work explores St Thomas Aquinas’s metaphysics of creation. In doing so, it explores the thinking on creation of Aquinas’s predecessors, the nature of God as creator, the meaning of creation, how to conceive of the causality of creation, and the object, history, and purpose of creation.
For Aquinas metaphysics, first philosophy, and a philosophical science of the divine (scientia divina) are one and the same. Following Aristotle, he is convinced that there is a science that studies being as being. Like other theoretical sciences, metaphysics must have a given subject.
This notion of an existentialist metaphysics carves out a space for Thomism independent of contemporary analytic approaches to metaphysics which are somewhat distanced from the actual existence of things, and the more continental approach of Sartre for whom existence is a given to be determined in the life choices that one makes.
Carrying this over to philosophy of mind, ethics, and natural law theory, Aquinas explains our free actions in terms of an innate desire for happiness, the chief human good, which desire is, at bottom, a desire for the beatific vision in which the highest possible happiness is obtained.
