Form and being [electronic resource] : studies in Thomistic metaphysics / Lawrence Dewan.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dewan, Lawrence, 1932-
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, c2006.
Subjects:
Thomas, > Aquinas, Saint, > 1225?-1274.
Online Access:
ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete: 2006 (Ebook Central @ Proquest)
EBSCO eBooks: 2006 (EBSCO)
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2006 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:
Form and Being: Studies in Thomistic Metaphysics
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • What is metaphysics?
  • What does it mean to study being "as being"?
  • St. Thomas and the seed of metaphysics
  • St. Thomas, physics, and the principle of metaphysics
  • St. Thomas and the principle of causality
  • St. Thomas and analogy : the logician and the metaphysician
  • The importance of substance
  • St. Thomas, metaphysics, and formal causality
  • St. Thomas, metaphysical procedure, and the formal cause
  • St. Thomas, form, and incorruptibility
  • St. Thomas and the distinction between form and esse in caused things
  • Nature as a metaphysical object
  • The individual as a mode of being according to Thomas Aquinas.