Form and being studies in Thomistic metaphysics /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dewan, Lawrence, 1932-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, c2006.
Series:Studies in philosophy and the history of philosophy ; v. 45.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:
  • What is metaphysics?
  • What does it mean to study being "as being"?
  • St. Thomas and the seed of metaphysics
  • St. Thomas, physics, and the principle of metaphysics
  • St. Thomas and the principle of causality
  • St. Thomas and analogy : the logician and the metaphysician
  • The importance of substance
  • St. Thomas, metaphysics, and formal causality
  • St. Thomas, metaphysical procedure, and the formal cause
  • St. Thomas, form, and incorruptibility
  • St. Thomas and the distinction between form and esse in caused things
  • Nature as a metaphysical object
  • The individual as a mode of being according to Thomas Aquinas.