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Metaphysical Themes in Thomas Aquinas II (Paperback)
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Metaphysical Themes in Thomas Aquinas II (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy
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This volume contains eleven articles and book chapters written by
John Wippel since the publication of his Metaphysical Themes in
Thomas Aquinas in 1984. Many of them have also been published since
the completion of his The Metaphysical Thought of Thomas Aquinas:
From Finite Being to Uncreated Being. It is intended to serve as a
complement to but not as a substitute for those volumes. The essays
considered in this volume range widely over many different topics
such as the possibility of a Christian philosophy from a Thomistic
perspective, the Latin Avicenna as a source for Aquinas's
metaphysics, truth in Thomas Aquinas (including truth in the
intellect and truth of being), and Platonism and Aristotelianism in
Aquinas's metaphysics. Several of them consider certain important
axioms or adages used by Aquinas in developing his metaphysical
thought, and still another investigates Aquinas's intention in
writing his Commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics. Others examine
Aquinas's views on whether created agents can cause esse, whether
divine omnipotence can be demonstrated philosophically, and whether
Aquinas has successfully shown on philosophical grounds that God is
free to create or whether because of his goodness he had to create.
All of them are concerned in one way or another with important
aspects of Aquinas's metaphysics. Wippel bases his interpretations
on a close reading of Aquinas's texts, taking into account certain
difficulties that arise from some of those texts, along with other
current and sometimes quite divergent readings. While Wippel argues
for a strong Platonic-Neoplatonic influence on Aquinas's
metaphysics along with the widely recognized influence of
Aristotle, he concludes that Aquinas's metaphysics cannot be
reduced to any of these earlier sources but is a truly original
production by Thomas himself.
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