Form and being : studies in Thomistic metaphysics / Lawrence Dewan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dewan, Lawrence, 1932-2015.

Series:

Studies in philosophy and the history of philosophy ; v. 45.

Studies in philosophy and the history of philosophy ; v. 45

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.

Thomas.

Physical Description:

xv, 265 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, [2006]

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-254) and indexes.

ISBN:

0813214610

OCLC:

62766672

Publisher Number:

9780813214610