Aquinas on being /
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| Author / Creator: | Kenny, Anthony John Patrick. |
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| Imprint: | Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (x, 212 pages) |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11143373 |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 212 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-207) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191543975 0191543977 142377101X 9781423771012 0199279446 |