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Aquinas on the divine ideas as exemplar causes / Gregory T. Doolan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Doolan, Gregory T.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.
- Thomas.
- God--Attributes.
- God.
- Idea (Philosophy).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (297 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Gregory T. Doolan provides here the first detailed consideration of the divine ideas as causal principles. He examines Thomas Aquinas's philosophical doctrine of the divine ideas and convincingly argues that it is an essential element of his metaphysics.
- Contents:
- Ideas as exemplar causes
- The existence of divine ideas
- The multiplicity of divine ideas
- Identifying God's exemplar ideas
- The causality of the divine exemplars
- Participation and the divine exemplars.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-264) and indexes.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8132-1842-X
- OCLC:
- 647932881
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