E-Book, Englisch, Band 2, 172 Seiten
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Symington On Determining What There is
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-3-11-032248-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
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The Identity of Ontological Categories in Aquinas, Scotus and Lowe
E-Book, Englisch, Band 2, 172 Seiten
Reihe: Eide
ISBN: 978-3-11-032248-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
Generally, categories are understood to express the most general features of reality. Yet, since categories have this special status, obtaining a correct list of them is difficult. This question is addressed by examining how Thomas Aquinas establishes the list of categories through a technique of identifying diversity in how predicates are per se related to their subjects. A sophisticated critique by Duns Scotus of this position is also examined, a rejection which is fundamentally grounded in the idea that no real distinction can be made from a logical one. It is argued Aquinas's approach can be rehabilitated in that real distinctions are possible when specifically considering per se modes of predication. This discussion between Aquinas and Scotus bears fruit in a contemporary context insofar as it bears upon, strengthens, and seeks to correct E. J. Lowe's four-category ontology view regarding the identity and relation of the categories.
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1;ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS;9
2;INTRODUCTION;11
3;CHAPTER ONE: AQUINAS ON ESTABLISHING THE IDENTITY OF ARISTOTLE’S CATEGORIES;25
3.1;I. The Aristotelian Context for the Derivation: Aristotle’s Metaphysics V.7;28
3.2;II. Fr. John Wippel’s Interpretation;32
3.3;III. per se Predication and the Identity of the Categories;41
3.4;IV. The Derivation of the Categories from per se Predication;48
3.5;V. Conclusion;55
4;CHAPTER TWO: SCOTUS’S CRITICISM OF AQUINAS’S DERIVATION OF THE CATEGORIES;57
4.1;I. Second Intentions, Essences, and Modes of Predication;60
4.2;II. Additional Criticisms of Aquinas’s Method of Establishing the Categories;88
4.3;III. Scotus and the Role of per se Modes of Predication in the Derivation;98
5;CHAPTER THREE: A RECONSIDERATION AND DEFENSE OF AQUINAS’S POSITION;100
5.1;I. The Categories in Aquinas: Their Nature and Relation to Predication;102
5.2;II. Addressing Scotus’s Arguments;119
5.3;III. Conclusion;138
6;CHAPTER FOUR: LOGICAL SYNTAX AND LOWE’S FOUR-CATEGORY ONTOLOGY;139
6.1;I. Lowe’s Categories and Aquinas’s Strategy of Deriving Categories;142
6.2;II. The Relationship between Logical Syntax and Ontology;149
6.3;III. A Problem with Lowe’s Justification of the Four-Category Ontology and its Resolution;157
6.4;IV. Conclusion;163
7;CONCLUSION;164
8;WORKS CITED;170
