Metaphysical themes in Thomas Aquinas II / John F. Wippel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wippel, John F.

Series:

Studies in philosophy and the history of philosophy ; v. 47.

Studies in philosophy and the history of philosophy ; v. 47

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.

Thomas.

Metaphysics--History--To 1500.

Metaphysics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 p.)

Edition:

[Rev. ed.].

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume contains eleven articles and book chapters written by John Wippel since the publication of his Metaphysical Themes in Thomas Aquinas in 1984.

Contents:

The possibility of a Christian philosophy : a Thomistic perspective

The Latin Avicenna as a source of Thomas Aquinas's metaphysics

Truth in Thomas Aquinas

Thomas Aquinas and the axiom "what is received is received according to the mode of the receiver"

Thomas Aquinas and the axiom that unreceived act is unlimited

Thomas Aquinas on our knowledge of God and the axiom that every agent produces something like itself

Thomas Aquinas on creatures as causes of esse

Thomas Aquinas on demonstrating God's omnipotence

Thomas Aquinas on God's freedom to create or not

Thomas Aquinas's commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics

Platonism and Aristotelianism in Aquinas.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-304) and indexes.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-8132-1667-2

OCLC:

922996399