Form and being : studies in Thomistic metaphysics /
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| Author / Creator: | Dewan, Lawrence, 1932- |
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| Imprint: | Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, c2006. |
| Description: | xv, 265 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in philosophy and the history of philosophy ; v. 45 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6116659 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Abbreviations
- 1. What Is Metaphysics?
- 2. What Does It Mean to Study Being "as Being"?
- 3. St. Thomas and the Seed of Metaphysics
- 4. St. Thomas, Physics, and the Principle of Metaphysics
- 5. St. Thomas and the Principle of Causality
- 6. St. Thomas and Analogy: The Logician and the Metaphysician
- 7. The Importance of Substance
- 8. St. Thomas, Metaphysics, and Formal Causality
- 9. St. Thomas, Metaphysical Procedure, and the Formal Cause
- 10. St. Thomas, Form, and Incorruptibility
- 11. St. Thomas and the Distinction between Form and Esse in Caused Things
- 12. Nature as a Metaphysical Object
- 13. The Individual as a Mode of Being according to Thomas Aquinas
- Bibliography
- Index of Names
- Index of Topics
