Aquinas on Being

Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-0-19-927944-9
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 136 mm x 203 mm, Gewicht: 265 g

Anthony Kenny offers a critical examination of a central metaphysical doctrine of Thomas Aquinas, the greatest of the medieval philosophers. Aquinas's account of being is famous and influential: but Kenny argues that it in fact suffers from systematic confusion. Because of the centrality of the doctrine, this has implications for other parts of Aquinas's philosophical system: in particular, Kenny shows that the idea that God is pure being is a hindrance, not a help, to Aquinas's natural theology.

Kenny's clear and incisive study, drawing on the scholastic as well as the analytic tradition, dispels the confusion and offers philosophers and theologians a guide through the labyrinth of Aquinas's ontology.

Zielgruppe

Scholars and graduate students of medieval philosophy, and of metaphysics, Christian theologians

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kenny, Anthony

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Mittelalterliche & Scholastische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Preface

- 1: On Being and Essence

- 2: On Being and Essence - II

- 3: The Commentary on the Sentences

- 4: The Disputed Questions on Truth

- 5: The Summa contra Gentiles

- 6: Questions Disputed in Rome

- 7: The Summa Theologiae

- 8: The Summa Theologiae - II

- 9: The Commentaries on Aristotle's Metaphysics

- 10: Conclusion: Twelve Types of Being

- Appendix: Frege and Aquinas on Existence and Number

- Biblography

Über Autor(innen)

Anthony Kenny, formerly Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University, Master of Balliol College, and President of the British Academy