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What It Is to Exist - The Contribution of Thomas Aquinas's View to the Contemporary Debate (Hardcover)
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What It Is to Exist - The Contribution of Thomas Aquinas's View to the Contemporary Debate (Hardcover)
Series: Quellen und Studien zur Philosophie
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One important task of metaphysics is to answer the question of what
it is for an object to exist. The first part of this book offers a
systematic reconstruction and critique of contemporary views on
existence. The upshot of this part is that the contemporary debate
has reached an impasse because none of the considered views is able
to formulate a satisfactory answer to this fundamental metaphysical
question. The second part reconstructs Thomas Aquinas's view on
existence (esse) and argues that it contributes a new perspective
which allows us to see why the contemporary debate has reached this
impasse. It has come to this point because it has taken a premise
for granted which Aquinas's view rejects, namely, that the
existence of an object consists in something's having a property. A
decisive contribution of Aquinas's theory of esse is that it makes
use of the ideas of metaphysical participation and composition. In
this way, it can be explained how an object can have esse without
being the case that esse is a property of it. This book brings
together a reconstruction from the history of philosophy with a
systematic study on existence and is therefore relevant for
scholars interested in contemporary or medieval theories of
existence.
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