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Author Wippel, John F., author.

Title Metaphysical themes in Thomas Aquinas / by John F. Wippel
Published Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, ©1995

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 293 pages)
Series Studies in philosophy and the history of philosophy ; v. 10
Studies in philosophy and the history of philosophy ; v. 10.
Contents Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter I: Thomas Aquinas and the Problem of Christian Philosophy -- 1: Etienne Gilson and Christian Philosophy -- 2: Personal Reflections -- Part I. The Nature of Metaphysics and its Subjects Matter -- Chapter II: Aquinas and Avicenna on the Relationship between First Philosophy and the Other Theoretical Sciences -- Chapter III: First Philosophy According to Thomas Aquinas -- Chapter IV: Metaphysics and Separatio in Thomas Aquinas -- Part II. The Metaphysics of Created and Uncreated Being
Chapter V. Essence and Existence in the De Ente, Ch. 4 A Reply to Fr. Owens -- Chapter VI. Essence and Existence in Other Writings -- 1: The Genus Argument -- 2: God-to-Creatures Argumentation -- 3: Arguments Based on Participation -- 4: Argumentation Based on the Limited Character of Individual Beings -- Chapter VII. Thomas Aquinas, Henry of Ghent, and Godfrey of Fontaines on the Reality of Nonexisting Possibles -- Chapter VIII. Thomas Aquinas on the Possiblity of Eternal Creation -- Chapter IX. Quidditative Knowledge of God
Chapter X. Divine Knowledge, Divine Power, and Human Freedom in Thomas Aquinas and Henry of Ghent 1: Thomas Aquinas -- 1.1: God's Knowledge of Future Continggents -- 1.2: The Causal Character of god's Knowledge and God's Will -- 2: Henry of Ghent -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Topics
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-280)
Notes Includes indexes
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Subject Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274 -- Contributions in metaphysics
Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274
Metaphysics -- History
PHILOSOPHY -- Essays.
PHILOSOPHY -- Reference.
PHILOSOPHY -- Metaphysics.
Metaphysics
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780813221045
0813221048