Participation and Substantiality in Thomas Aquinas / Rudi A. te Velde.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Velde, Rudi te, author.

Series:

Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters ; Volume 46.

Studien und Texte Zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters Series ; Volume 46

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Substance (Philosophy).

Participation.

Creation.

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.

Thomas.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands : E.J. Brill, [1995]

Summary:

This book offers a philosophical analysis of the main themes and problems of Aquinas' metaphysics of creation, centred on the concept of participation, the systematical meaning of which is examined in a critical discussion of the prevailing views of contemporary Thomas scholars.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

GENERAL INTRODUCTION

PART ONE: THE TENSION BETWEEN SUBSTANCE AND PARTICIPATION

Introduction

I. Participation and the Question of the Good

1. Introduction: the De hebdomadibus Commentary

2. Thomas on the Meaning of Participation

3. The Presuppositions of Boethius's Antinomy

4. Boethius's Solution: Being Good as a Relation

II. The Threefold Goodness of Created Being

1. Introduction: the "Communicatio Boni"

2. The Intrinsic Goodness of Created Being

3. The Threefold Sense of "Good by Participation"

4. The Finality of the Good

III. Participation According to Subject and Accident

1. Introduction

2. The Relationship of Subject and Accident

3. The Accidental Order of the Virtus

IV. The Foundation of the Good in Being

2. The Convertibility Thesis according to De veritate 21.

3. The Sameness of Good and Being according to the Summa

4. Transcendental Properties and Metaphysical Separateness

5. The Praedicatio Concreti de Abstracto

V. The Application of Participation to Being

1. The "Esse Participatum" from De veritate 21

2. Avicenna on the Essence-Esse Distinction

3. Esse between Accidentality and Actuality

4. The Participational Structure of Being

PART TWO: PARTICIPATION AND THE CAUSALITY OF CREATION

VI. The Divine Similitude in Created Being

2. The Agens Analogicum: Creation as Ontological Fall?

3. Creation as Emanation and as Work of Divine Art

4. The Exemplarity of the Divine Essence

VII. The Participation Argument for Creation

2. The Meaning of Ipsum Esse Subsistens

3. The Argument of Creation according to the Summa

4. The Threefold Reduction to a First One.

VIII. The Progress of Philosophical Reason towards Creation

2. The Progress in the Understanding of Being

3. The Double Composition in Material Things

4. The Problem of the Limitation of Being

5. The Creatio ex Nihilo

IX. The Order of Causality between God and Nature

1. The Active Immanence of God in Nature

2. The Hierarchy in Causality

3. The Mediation of the Secondary Causality

4. Being as the Proper Effect of God

X. The Community of Being and the Question of its Differentiation

2. The Meaning of Esse Commune

3. Community and Actuality of Being

4. The Threefold Structure of Being (ens)

PART THREE: DEGREES OF PARTICIPATION AND THE QUESTION OF SUBSTANTIAL UNITY

XI. Form as Principle of the Order of Being

1. Introduction: the Order of the Universe

2. Form is Something Divine

3. The Principle Forma Dat Esse

4. The 'Non-Being' of Form

5. The Species of Things are like Numbers

6. Form as Unity of Perfection and Measure of Perfection

XII. Form as Principle of the Unity of Being

1. The Controversy over the Unity of Substantial Form

2. The External Mediation of the Unity of Being in Avicebron

3. The Platonic Background of Avicebron's Thought

4. The Unity of Substantial Form

5. Real Unity and Logical Complexity of Form

6. Conclusion: Unity of Being and Degrees of Participation

XIII. The Unity in God of Being, Living and Understanding

1. Introduction: Dionysius's "Correction" of Neo-platonism

2. Thomas's Transformation of the Neoplatonic Hierarchy

3. Some Aspects of Thomas's Interpretation of Dionysius

4. The Inclusion of Life and Understanding in Being

5. God as Unity of Being, Living, and Understanding

Epilogue

Bibliography

Index Personarum et Rerum.

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ISBN:

9789004452213

9004452214

OCLC:

1294385866