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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.
26 de sept. de 2002 · Anthony Kenny offers a critical examination of a central metaphysical doctrine of Thomas Aquinas, the greatest of the medieval philosophers. Aquinas's account of being is famous and influential: but Kenny argues that it in fact suffers from systematic confusion.
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 ...
14 de abr. de 2005 · Paperback – April 14, 2005. Anthony Kenny offers a critical examination of Thomas Aquinas's influential account of being, arguing that it suffers from systematic confusion. Because of the centrality of the doctrine, this has implications for other parts of Aquinas's philosophical system.
19 de may. de 2016 · Aquinas develops a distinctive account of the relation between being and essence, one which inspired controversy and comment in the centuries after his death. Relying on his basic essentialism, he also offered a detailed, nuanced, realist conception of human nature and of the role contingent beings play in a universe structured by a ...
Being and essence are the beginning points of knowledge by the intellect. One must guard, therefore, against making mistakes about being and essence; for it is obvious that a single and simple error at a beginning point easily turns all that follows after into a multiple and complex one.
Aquinas on Being By Anthony Kenny Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002; 224 pp.; hb. ¿ 35.00, pb. ¿ 14.99; ISBN: 0-19-823847-9/0-19-927944-6. [1] Anthony Kenny’s new book Aquinas on Being is a thought-provoking study in its severe criticism and analytical disentanglement of the multiple confu-sionsAquinas’accountof‘being’supposedlysuffersfrom.
