Summa metaphysicae ad mentem Sancti Thomae : essays in honor of John F. Wippel / edited by Therese Scarpelli Cory and Gregory T. Doolan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cory, Therese Scarpelli, 1982- editor.

Doolan, Gregory T., editor.

Wippel, John F., honouree.

Series:

Studies in philosophy and the history of philosophy ; v. 68.

Studies in philosophy and the history of philosophy ; volume 68.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.

Thomas.

Metaphysics--History.

Metaphysics.

Philosophy, Medieval.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xx, 411 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : The Catholic University of America Press, [2024].

Summary:

This volume is a tribute to Fr. John F. Wippel. Following the philosophical order that Aquinas might have adopted "had he chosen to write a Summa metaphysicae"--an order that Wippel himself lays out in his Metaphysical Thought of Thomas Aquinas--these essays unfold new research on some of the most intriguing topics in Aquinas's metaphysics, from the most recent generation of scholars formed by Wippel's pioneering work. The contributors address the discovery of being qua being via separation (Gregory T. Doolan), propter quid metaphysical demonstrations (Philip Neri Reese), the origins of the controversies about the real distinction between essence and esse (Mark Gossiaux), a defense of essence-realism as a key to the real distinction (David Twetten), the relationship of likeness and agency (Therese Scarpelli Cory), created form as act and potency (Stephen Brock), the variation of accidental forms (Gloria Frost), the possibility of angelic judgment (Francis Feingold), argumentation for the existence of God (Gaven Kerr), the propriety of " Qui Est" as a Divine Name (Brian Carl), 'Beauty' as a Divine Name (Michael Rubin), and God's application of creaturely powers to action (Jason Mitchell).

Contents:

Part 1: Metaphysics as a science. Discovering the perspective from which being is considered as being: Aquinas, Wippel, and the separative analysis of substance / Gregory T. Doolan

Omne ens est creatum: A propter quid metaphysical demonstration / Philip Neri Reese, OP

Part 2: The problem of the one and the many in the order of being. Thomas Aquinas and the origin of the controversy concerning the real distinction between essence and existence / Mark D. Gossiaux

A defense of essence-realism as the key to Aquinas's arguments for the essence-esse real distinction / David Twetten

Likeness and agency in Aquinas: a study / Therese Scarpelli Cory

Part 3: The essential structure of finite being. Created form as act and potency in the metaphysics of Thomas Aquinas / Stephen Brock

Aquinas on how accidental forms vary in themselves / Gloria Frost

Part 4: First causal principles: From finite being to uncreated being. Can angels know being without judgment / Francis Feingold

Aquinas's metaphysical way to God / Gaven Kerr

The kataphatic and apophatic propriety of 'qui est' / Brian Carl

Aquinas on 'Beauty' as a divine name / Michael Rubin

Aquinas on divine application / Jason Mitchell

Appendix: Vita Sapientis: A biographical interview with John F. Wippel / Nick Kahm and Miriam Pritschet.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-400) and indexes.

ISBN:

9780813237275

0813237270

OCLC:

1385451472