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-

Contributor:

Salas, Victor M.

Series:

Ancient and medieval philosophy. Series 1 ; 44.

Ancient and medieval philosophy ; ser. I, 44

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ontology.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Transcendentalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (350 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leuven, Belgium : Leuven University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

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:

Editor's Foreword; Introduction; Table of Contents; Chap. 1: Sprouts from Greek Gardens: Antisthenes, Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics; Chap. 2: Suárez on Beings of Reason and Truth; Chap. 3: Extrinsic Cognoscibility; Chap. 4: Impossible Objects; Chap. 5: The Teleology of Impossible Objects; Chap. 6. Beings of Reason and Imagination; Chap. 7: Four Degree of Abstraction; Chap. 8: From Transcendental to Transcendental; Chap. 9: Supertranscendental Nothing; Chap. 10: Wrestling with a Wraith; Chap. 11: The Borders of Knowability; Chap. 12: Conclusion; Bibliography; indices of names

Index of terms

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

94-6166-068-5

OCLC:

828140152