Form and being [[electronic resource] ] : studies in Thomistic metaphysics / / Lawrence Dewan

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910455890503321
• Autore: Dewan Lawrence <1932->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, D.C., : Catholic University of America Press, c2006
• ISBN: 0-8132-1602-8
• Descrizione fisica: xv, 265 p
• Collana: Studies in philosophy and the history of philosophy ; ; v. 45
• Disciplina: 100 s; 189/.4
• Soggetti: Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-254) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.