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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780764303321

Autore

Wippel John F

Titolo

Metaphysical themes in Thomas Aquinas II [[electronic resource] /] / John F. Wippel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : Catholic University of America Press, c2007

ISBN

0-8132-1667-2

Edizione

[[Rev. ed.].]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (329 p.)

Collana

Studies in philosophy and the history of philosophy ; ; v. 47

Disciplina

100 s

110.92

Soggetti

Metaphysics - History - To 1500

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-304) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

The possibility of a Christian philosophy : a Thomistic perspective -- The Latin Avicenna as a source of Thomas Aquinas's metaphysics -- Truth in Thomas Aquinas -- Thomas Aquinas and the axiom "what is received is received according to the mode of the receiver" -- Thomas Aquinas and the axiom that unreceived act is unlimited -- Thomas Aquinas on our knowledge of God and the axiom that every agent produces something like itself -- Thomas Aquinas on creatures as causes of esse -- Thomas Aquinas on demonstrating God's omnipotence -- Thomas Aquinas on God's freedom to create or not -- Thomas Aquinas's commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics -- Platonism and Aristotelianism in Aquinas.