Metaphysical themes in Thomas Aquinas
- Title
- Metaphysical themes in Thomas Aquinas / by John F. Wippel.
- Published by
- Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, ©1984.
- Author
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Details
- Description
- xi, 293 pages; 24 cm
- Series statement
- Studies in philosophy and the history of philosophy ; v. 10
- Uniform title
- Studies in philosophy and the history of philosophy ; v. 10.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Contents
- Thomas Aquinas and the problem of Christian philosophy. Etienne Gilson and Christian philosophy. Personal reflections -- The nature of metaphysics and its subject-matter -- Aquinas and Avicenna on the relationship between first philosophy and the other theoretical sciences (In De Tran., q. 5, a. 1, ad 9) -- "First philosophy" according to Thomas Aquinas -- Metaphysics and Separation in Thomas Aquinas -- The metaphysics of created and uncreated being. Essence and existence in the De Ante, ch. 4. A reply to Fr. Owens -- Essence and existence in other writings. The "genus" argument. God-to-creatures argumentation. Arguments based on participation. Argumentation based on the limited character of individual beings -- Thomas Aquinas, Henry of Ghent, and Godfrey of Fontaine's on the reality of nonexisting possibles -- Thomas Aquinas on the possibility of eternal creation -- Quidditative knowledge of God -- Divine knowledge, divine power, and human freedom in Thomas Aquinas and Henry of Ghent. Thomas Aquinas: God's knowledge of future contingents; The casual character of God's knowing and God's will. Henry of Ghent.
- Owning institution
- Princeton University Library
- Note
- Includes indexes.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 271-280.