Participation And Substantiality In Thomas Aquinas Participation & Substantiality In Thomas Aquinas Participatie En Substantialiteit. English

Participation And Substantiality In Thomas Aquinas Presents A Comprehensive And Penetrating Account Of Aquinas' Metaphysics Of Creation. Its Main Focus Is The Concept Of Participation Of Being. On The Basis Of A Detailed Textual Analysis A Philosophical Interpretation Is Offered Of The Main Concepts And Arguments Which Underlie Thomas' Theocentric Understanding Of Reality. The Central Unifying Theme Of The Book Is The Apparent Tension Between The Notion Of Participation (central To The Platonic Tradition) And That Of Substance (central To The Aristotelian Tradition). The Author Argues That Aquinas Is Quite Successful In Bringing Together In His Metaphysics On The One Hand The Substantiality Of Finite Beings And On The Other Hand Their Total Dependency Upon The Divine Being By Way Of Participation. The Author Defends His Interpretation In A Critical Discussion Of The Views On Participation Brought Forward By Well-known Aquinas Scholars Such As Geiger And Fabro.--book Jacket. By Rudi A. Te Velde. A Revision Of The Author's Thesis (doctoral)--free University Of Amsterdam, 1991. Revised From The Dutch With The Help Of Anthony P. Runia--t.p. Verso Includes Bibliographical References (p. [284]-288) And Index. Preliminary Material, i–vii Abbreviations, viii General Introduction, ix–xiv PART ONE: THE TENSION BETWEEN SUBSTANCE AND PARTICIPATION Introduction, 3–7 Chapter One Participation and the Question of the Good, 8–20 Chapter Two The Threefold Goodness of Created Being, 21–34 Chapter Three Participation According to Subject and Accident, 35–43 Chapter Four The Foundation of the Good in Being, 44–65 Chapter Five The Application of Participation to Being, 66–83 PART TWO: PARTICIPATION AND THE CAUSALITY OF CREATION Introduction, 87–91 Chapter Six The Divine Similitude in Created Being, 92–116 Chapter Seven The Participation Argument for Creation, 117–133 Chapter Eight The Progress of Philosophical Reason Towards Creation, 134–159 Chapter Nine The Order of Causality between God and Nature, 160–183 Chapter Ten The Community of being and the Question of its Differentiation,184–206 PART THREE: DEGREES OF PARTICIPATION AND THE QUESTION OF SUBSTANTAIL UNITY Introduction, 209–211 Chapter Eleven Form as Principle of the Order of Being, 212–233 Chapter Twelve Form as Principle of the Unity of Being, 234–253 Chapter Thirteen The Unity in God of Being, Living and Understanding, 254–279 Epilogue, 280–283 Bibliography, 284–288 Index Personarum et Rerum,289–290