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Record Nr.

UNINA9910973586503321

Autore

Doolan Gregory T

Titolo

Aquinas on the divine ideas as exemplar causes / / Gregory T. Doolan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : Catholic University of America Press, c2008

ISBN

0-8132-1842-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (297 p.)

Disciplina

111/.2

Soggetti

God - Attributes

Idea (Philosophy)

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. 253-264) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Ideas as exemplar causes -- The existence of divine ideas -- The multiplicity of divine ideas -- Identifying God's exemplar ideas -- The causality of the divine exemplars -- Participation and the divine exemplars.

Sommario/riassunto

Gregory T. Doolan provides here the first detailed consideration of the divine ideas as causal principles. He examines Thomas Aquinas's philosophical doctrine of the divine ideas and convincingly argues that it is an essential element of his metaphysics.