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Autore |
Dewan Lawrence <1932-> |
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Titolo |
Form and being : studies in Thomistic metaphysics / / Lawrence Dewan |
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Washington, D.C., : Catholic University of America Press, c2006 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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Collana |
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Studies in philosophy and the history of philosophy ; ; v. 45 |
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Soggetti |
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Thomas, -- Aquinas, Saint, -- 1225?-1274 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-254) and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Contains thirteen essays by Lawrence Dewan on metaphysics, the vision of reality from the viewpoint of being. |
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