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On the borders of being and knowing : some late scholastic thoughts on supertranscendental being / John P. Doyle ; edited by Victor M. Salas.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Doyle, John P., 1930-
- Series:
- Ancient and medieval philosophy. Series 1 ; 44.
- Ancient and medieval philosophy. Series I ; 44
- Language:
- English
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Ontology.
- Knowledge, Theory of.
- Transcendentals.
- Transcendentalism.
- Scholasticism.
- Suárez, Francisco, 1548-1617.
- Suárez, Francisco.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 326 pages ; 25 cm.
- Other Title:
- Some late scholastic thoughts on supertranscendental being
- Place of Publication:
- Leuven, Belgium : Leuven University Press, [2012]
- Language Note:
- Text in English with extensive quotations from source documents in Latin.
- Summary:
- Sylvester Mauro, S.J. (1619-1687) noted that human intellects can grasp what is, what is not, what can be, and what cannot be. The first principle, 'it is not possible that the same thing simultaneously be and not be, ' involves them all. The present volume begins with Greeks distinguishing 'being' from 'something' and proceeds to the late Scholastic doctrine of 'supertranscendental being', which embraces both. On the way is Aristotle's distinction between 'being as being' and 'being as true' and his extension of the latter to include impossible objects.
- Contents:
- Sprouts from Greek gardens : Antisthenes, Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics
- Suárez on beings of reason and truth
- Extrinsic cognoscibility
- Impossible objects
- The teleology of impossible objects
- Beings of reason and imagination
- Four degrees of abstraction
- From transcendental to transcendental
- Supertranscendental nothing
- Wrestling with a wraith
- The borders of knowability
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [301]-318) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9058678954
- 9789058678959
- OCLC:
- 767566883
- Publisher Number:
- 99951807857
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