Maimonides on the origin of the world / / Kenneth Seeskin [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Seeskin Kenneth <1947-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (viii, 215 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 213/.092 |
Soggetto topico |
Creation
Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy, Medieval Jewish philosophy |
ISBN |
1-107-15210-0
0-511-35056-2 0-511-34968-8 9786611085735 1-281-08573-1 0-511-34779-0 0-511-34876-2 1-280-42219-X 0-511-18200-7 0-511-13040-6 0-511-19916-3 0-511-30935-X 0-511-61462-4 0-511-12887-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | God and the problem of origin -- Creation in the Timaeus -- Aristotle and the arguments for eternity -- Plotinus and metaphysical causation -- Particularity -- Nature, miracles, and the end of the world -- Aftermath and conclusion. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910457616203321 |
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Maimonides on the origin of the world / / Kenneth Seeskin [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Seeskin Kenneth <1947-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (viii, 215 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 213/.092 |
Soggetto topico |
Creation
Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy, Medieval Jewish philosophy |
ISBN |
1-107-15210-0
0-511-35056-2 0-511-34968-8 9786611085735 1-281-08573-1 0-511-34779-0 0-511-34876-2 1-280-42219-X 0-511-18200-7 0-511-13040-6 0-511-19916-3 0-511-30935-X 0-511-61462-4 0-511-12887-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | God and the problem of origin -- Creation in the Timaeus -- Aristotle and the arguments for eternity -- Plotinus and metaphysical causation -- Particularity -- Nature, miracles, and the end of the world -- Aftermath and conclusion. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910784308503321 |
Seeskin Kenneth <1947->
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2005 | ||
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Maimonides on the origin of the world / / Kenneth Seeskin |
Autore | Seeskin Kenneth <1947-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (viii, 215 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 213/.092 |
Soggetto topico |
Creation
Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy, Medieval Jewish philosophy |
ISBN |
1-107-15210-0
0-511-35056-2 0-511-34968-8 9786611085735 1-281-08573-1 0-511-34779-0 0-511-34876-2 1-280-42219-X 0-511-18200-7 0-511-13040-6 0-511-19916-3 0-511-30935-X 0-511-61462-4 0-511-12887-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | God and the problem of origin -- Creation in the Timaeus -- Aristotle and the arguments for eternity -- Plotinus and metaphysical causation -- Particularity -- Nature, miracles, and the end of the world -- Aftermath and conclusion. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910815290803321 |
Seeskin Kenneth <1947->
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Cambridge ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2005 | ||
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The metaphysics of creation [[electronic resource] ] : Aquinas's natural theology in Summa contra gentiles II / / Norman Kretzmann |
Autore | Kretzmann Norman |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford, : Clarendon Press |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (498 p.) |
Disciplina | 213/.092 |
Soggetto topico |
Creation
Metaphysics Natural theology |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-19-159787-2
0-19-151929-4 9786612051883 1-282-05188-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Abbreviations""; ""One. Nature from the Top Down""; ""1. The aims of the book""; ""2. Aquinas's natural theology""; ""3. SCG II as the thematic continuation of SCG I""; ""4. �Divine truth�""; ""5. God's immanent and transeunt activity""; ""6. The positive results of meditating on creation""; ""7. The corrective results of meditating on creation""; ""8. How philosophy and the faith are taught""; ""9. Aquinas's plan for SCG II""; ""Two. From God to Everything Else""; ""1. SCG II as the logical continuation of SCG I""; ""2. Considering the source""
""3. The actus purus argument""""4. God's active power""; ""5. How to attribute power to God""; ""6. How to attribute relations to God""; ""7. God as the source of everything else""; ""8. Argument E/U""; ""Three. Creation as Doubly Universal Production""; ""1. For all things the cause of being""; ""2. Out of no antecedent matter""; ""3. Not even prime matter""; ""4. Not through movement or change""; ""5. Something out of nothing""; ""6. Movement and change considered more closely""; ""7. No successiveness in creating""; ""8. No body can create""; ""9. Creating belongs to God alone"" ""Four. Creation's Modalities""""1. Why would God create?""; ""2. The scope of God's creative power""; ""3. Separated substances as counter-instances to the single-effect account of creation""; ""4. Corporeal matter as a counter-instance to the single-effect account of creation""; ""5. Omnipotence and absolute possibility""; ""6. The modality of creative action""; ""7. The modalities of intellection and volition""; ""8. Justice, goodness, and God's plan as possible grounds for obligatory creation""; ""9. Kinds of necessity in created things"" ""Five. Could the Created World have Existed for Ever?""""1. �The eternity of the world�""; ""2. The modalities of beginningless creation""; ""3. The created world need not have existed for ever""; ""4. Beginninglessness based on considerations of God""; ""5. Beginninglessness based on considerations of created things""; ""6. Beginninglessness based on considerations of the making of things""; ""7. Purported proofs that the world must have begun to exist""; ""8. Aquinas's probable argument for the greater goodness of a temporally finite world""; ""Six. The Origin of Species"" ""1. From producing to distinguishing""""2. Distinguishing and furnishing""; ""3. Aquinas's non-creationist reading of Genesis 1""; ""4. Distinguishing distinguished, broadly""; ""5. The complex product of an absolutely simple producer""; ""6. Distinguishing distinguished, more narrowly""; ""7. A mind behind the scenes""; ""8. Not by chance""; ""9. Not by matter alone""; ""10. Manifold manifestation""; ""11. God's choice of this world""; ""Seven. Intellects""; ""1. Considering created things themselves""; ""2. Considering intellective creatures only"" ""3. Reasons why creation includes intellective substances"" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454737603321 |
Kretzmann Norman
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Oxford, : Clarendon Press | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The metaphysics of creation [[electronic resource] ] : Aquinas's natural theology in Summa contra gentiles II / / Norman Kretzmann |
Autore | Kretzmann Norman |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford, : Clarendon Press |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (498 p.) |
Disciplina | 213/.092 |
Soggetto topico |
Creation
Metaphysics Natural theology |
ISBN |
0-19-159787-2
0-19-151929-4 9786612051883 1-282-05188-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Abbreviations""; ""One. Nature from the Top Down""; ""1. The aims of the book""; ""2. Aquinas's natural theology""; ""3. SCG II as the thematic continuation of SCG I""; ""4. �Divine truth�""; ""5. God's immanent and transeunt activity""; ""6. The positive results of meditating on creation""; ""7. The corrective results of meditating on creation""; ""8. How philosophy and the faith are taught""; ""9. Aquinas's plan for SCG II""; ""Two. From God to Everything Else""; ""1. SCG II as the logical continuation of SCG I""; ""2. Considering the source""
""3. The actus purus argument""""4. God's active power""; ""5. How to attribute power to God""; ""6. How to attribute relations to God""; ""7. God as the source of everything else""; ""8. Argument E/U""; ""Three. Creation as Doubly Universal Production""; ""1. For all things the cause of being""; ""2. Out of no antecedent matter""; ""3. Not even prime matter""; ""4. Not through movement or change""; ""5. Something out of nothing""; ""6. Movement and change considered more closely""; ""7. No successiveness in creating""; ""8. No body can create""; ""9. Creating belongs to God alone"" ""Four. Creation's Modalities""""1. Why would God create?""; ""2. The scope of God's creative power""; ""3. Separated substances as counter-instances to the single-effect account of creation""; ""4. Corporeal matter as a counter-instance to the single-effect account of creation""; ""5. Omnipotence and absolute possibility""; ""6. The modality of creative action""; ""7. The modalities of intellection and volition""; ""8. Justice, goodness, and God's plan as possible grounds for obligatory creation""; ""9. Kinds of necessity in created things"" ""Five. Could the Created World have Existed for Ever?""""1. �The eternity of the world�""; ""2. The modalities of beginningless creation""; ""3. The created world need not have existed for ever""; ""4. Beginninglessness based on considerations of God""; ""5. Beginninglessness based on considerations of created things""; ""6. Beginninglessness based on considerations of the making of things""; ""7. Purported proofs that the world must have begun to exist""; ""8. Aquinas's probable argument for the greater goodness of a temporally finite world""; ""Six. The Origin of Species"" ""1. From producing to distinguishing""""2. Distinguishing and furnishing""; ""3. Aquinas's non-creationist reading of Genesis 1""; ""4. Distinguishing distinguished, broadly""; ""5. The complex product of an absolutely simple producer""; ""6. Distinguishing distinguished, more narrowly""; ""7. A mind behind the scenes""; ""8. Not by chance""; ""9. Not by matter alone""; ""10. Manifold manifestation""; ""11. God's choice of this world""; ""Seven. Intellects""; ""1. Considering created things themselves""; ""2. Considering intellective creatures only"" ""3. Reasons why creation includes intellective substances"" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777704003321 |
Kretzmann Norman
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Oxford, : Clarendon Press | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The metaphysics of creation : Aquinas's natural theology in Summa contra gentiles II / / Norman Kretzmann |
Autore | Kretzmann Norman |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford, : Clarendon Press |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (498 p.) |
Disciplina | 213/.092 |
Soggetto topico |
Creation
Metaphysics Natural theology |
ISBN |
0-19-159787-2
0-19-151929-4 9786612051883 1-282-05188-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Abbreviations""; ""One. Nature from the Top Down""; ""1. The aims of the book""; ""2. Aquinas's natural theology""; ""3. SCG II as the thematic continuation of SCG I""; ""4. �Divine truth�""; ""5. God's immanent and transeunt activity""; ""6. The positive results of meditating on creation""; ""7. The corrective results of meditating on creation""; ""8. How philosophy and the faith are taught""; ""9. Aquinas's plan for SCG II""; ""Two. From God to Everything Else""; ""1. SCG II as the logical continuation of SCG I""; ""2. Considering the source""
""3. The actus purus argument""""4. God's active power""; ""5. How to attribute power to God""; ""6. How to attribute relations to God""; ""7. God as the source of everything else""; ""8. Argument E/U""; ""Three. Creation as Doubly Universal Production""; ""1. For all things the cause of being""; ""2. Out of no antecedent matter""; ""3. Not even prime matter""; ""4. Not through movement or change""; ""5. Something out of nothing""; ""6. Movement and change considered more closely""; ""7. No successiveness in creating""; ""8. No body can create""; ""9. Creating belongs to God alone"" ""Four. Creation's Modalities""""1. Why would God create?""; ""2. The scope of God's creative power""; ""3. Separated substances as counter-instances to the single-effect account of creation""; ""4. Corporeal matter as a counter-instance to the single-effect account of creation""; ""5. Omnipotence and absolute possibility""; ""6. The modality of creative action""; ""7. The modalities of intellection and volition""; ""8. Justice, goodness, and God's plan as possible grounds for obligatory creation""; ""9. Kinds of necessity in created things"" ""Five. Could the Created World have Existed for Ever?""""1. �The eternity of the world�""; ""2. The modalities of beginningless creation""; ""3. The created world need not have existed for ever""; ""4. Beginninglessness based on considerations of God""; ""5. Beginninglessness based on considerations of created things""; ""6. Beginninglessness based on considerations of the making of things""; ""7. Purported proofs that the world must have begun to exist""; ""8. Aquinas's probable argument for the greater goodness of a temporally finite world""; ""Six. The Origin of Species"" ""1. From producing to distinguishing""""2. Distinguishing and furnishing""; ""3. Aquinas's non-creationist reading of Genesis 1""; ""4. Distinguishing distinguished, broadly""; ""5. The complex product of an absolutely simple producer""; ""6. Distinguishing distinguished, more narrowly""; ""7. A mind behind the scenes""; ""8. Not by chance""; ""9. Not by matter alone""; ""10. Manifold manifestation""; ""11. God's choice of this world""; ""Seven. Intellects""; ""1. Considering created things themselves""; ""2. Considering intellective creatures only"" ""3. Reasons why creation includes intellective substances"" |
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Oxford, : Clarendon Press | ||
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