"The Summa Theologica is the best-known work of Italian philosopher, scholar, and Dominican friar SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS (12251274), widely considered the Catholic Churchs greatest theologian. Famously consulted (immediately after the Bible) on religious questions at the Council of Trent, Aquinass masterpiece has been considered a summary of official Church philosophy ever since. Aquinas considers approximately 10,000 questions on Church doctrine covering the roles and nature of God, man, and Jesus, then lays out objections to Church teachings and systematically confronts each, using Biblical verses, theologians, and philosophers to bolster his arguments. In Volume I, Aquinas addresses: the existence and perfection of God the justice and mercy of God predestination the cause of evil the union of body and soul free will and fate and much more. This massive work of scholarship, spanning five volumes, addresses just about every possible query or argument that any believer or atheist could have, and remains essential, more than seven hundred years after it was written, for clergy, religious historians, and serious students of Catholic thought."

"The Summa Theologica is the best-known work of Italian philosopher, scholar, and Dominican friar SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS (12251274), widely considered the Catholic Churchs greatest theologian. Famously consulted (immediately after the Bible) on religious questions at the Council of Trent, Aquinass masterpiece has been considered a summary of official Church philosophy ever since. Aquinas considers approximately 10,000 questions on Church doctrine covering the roles and nature of God, man, and Jesus, then lays out objections to Church teachings and systematically confronts each, using Biblical verses, theologians, and philosophers to bolster his arguments. In Volume II, Aquinas addresses: happiness good and evil love and hatred hope and despair anger virtue sin and grace and much more. This massive work of scholarship, spanning five volumes, addresses just about every possible query or argument that any believer or atheist could have, and remains essential, more than seven hundred years after it was written, for clergy, religious historians, and serious students of Catholic thought."

"The Summa Theologica is the best-known work of Italian philosopher, scholar, and Dominican friar SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS (12251274), widely considered the Catholic Churchs greatest theologian. Famously consulted (immediately after the Bible) on religious questions at the Council of Trent, Aquinass masterpiece has been considered a summary of official Church philosophy ever since. Aquinas considers approximately 10,000 questions on Church doctrine covering the roles and nature of God, man, and Jesus, then lays out objections to Church teachings and systematically confronts each, using Biblical verses, theologians, and philosophers to bolster his arguments. In Volume III, Aquinas addresses: faith and heresy charity peace and war mercy, anger, and justice prayer truth and much more. This massive work of scholarship, spanning five volumes, addresses just about every possible query or argument that any believer or atheist could have, and remains essential, more than seven hundred years after it was written, for clergy, religious historians, and serious students of Catholic thought."

"The Summa Theologica is the best-known work of Italian philosopher, scholar, and Dominican friar SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS (12251274), widely considered the Catholic Churchs greatest theologian. Famously consulted (immediately after the Bible) on religious questions at the Council of Trent, Aquinass masterpiece has been considered a summary of official Church philosophy ever since. Aquinas considers approximately 10,000 questions on Church doctrine covering the roles and nature of God, man, and Jesus, then lays out objections to Church teachings and systematically confronts each, using Biblical verses, theologians, and philosophers to bolster his arguments. In Volume IV, Aquinas addresses: chastity and lust sobriety and humility pride prophecy and Rapture the passion of Christ Christs resurrection the sacraments and much more. This massive work of scholarship, spanning five volumes, addresses just about every possible query or argument that any believer or atheist could have, and remains essential, more than seven hundred years after it was written, for clergy, religious historians, and serious students of Catholic thought."

"The Summa Theologica is the best-known work of Italian philosopher, scholar, and Dominican friar SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS (12251274), widely considered the Catholic Churchs greatest theologian. Famously consulted (immediately after the Bible) on religious questions at the Council of Trent, Aquinass masterpiece has been considered a summary of official Church philosophy ever since. Aquinas considers approximately 10,000 questions on Church doctrine covering the roles and nature of God, man, and Jesus, then lays out objections to Church teachings and systematically confronts each, using Biblical verses, theologians, and philosophers to bolster his arguments. In Volume V, Aquinas addresses: penance, contrition, and confession excommunication matrimony and divorce slavery judgment purgatory and much more This massive work of scholarship, spanning five volumes, addresses just about every possible query or argument that any believer or atheist could have, and remains essential, more than seven hundred years after it was written, for clergy, religious historians, and serious students of Catholic thought."

"The Summa Theologica is the best-known work of Italian philosopher, scholar, and Dominican friar SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS (12251274), widely considered the Catholic Churchs greatest theologian. Famously consulted (immediately after the Bible) on religious questions at the Council of Trent, Aquinass masterpiece has been considered a summary of official Church philosophy ever since. Aquinas considers approximately 10,000 questions on Church doctrine covering the roles and nature of God, man, and Jesus, then lays out objections to Church teachings and systematically confronts each, using Biblical verses, theologians, and philosophers to bolster his arguments. In Volume I, Aquinas addresses: the existence and perfection of God the justice and mercy of God predestination the cause of evil the union of body and soul free will and fate and much more. This massive work of scholarship, spanning five volumes, addresses just about every possible query or argument that any believer or atheist could have, and remains essential, more than seven hundred years after it was written, for clergy, religious historians, and serious students of Catholic thought."

Text extracted from opening pages of book: CONCERNING BEING AND ESSENCE ( Dc Ente et Essentia) BY ST. THOMAS AgUINAS Ad Fratres et Socios.* 7 - Translated from the Latin with the Addition of a Preface by GEORGE G. LECKIE D. APPLETON-CENTURY COMPANY INCORPORATED New York London relations exist in God really; in proof whereof we may consider that in relations alone is found something which is only in the apprehension. . . . This is not found in any other genus; forasmuch as other genera, as quantity and quality, in their strict and proper meaning, signify something inherent in a subject. But relation in its own proper meaning signifies only what relates to another/' Now whatever has an accidental existence in creatures, when considered as transferred to God, has a substantial existence/ 5 Summa Theologica, Qs. 27-49, CONTENTS PAGE PREFACE ix I Biographical Account of St. Thomas Aquinas . . xiii II Thomistic Anthropology and Epistemology 1. Basic Features of Doctrine xvii 2. The Order of Abstraction and the Order of Signification xxiv Concerning Being and Essence Introduction 3 CHAPTER I What the Names Being and Essence Commonly Sig nify 4 II What Essence Is in Composite Substances ... 7 III How Essence Is Disposed towards Genus and Differ ence 16 IV By What Mode Essence Exists in Separate Sub stances 21 V How Diverse Essences Exist in Diverse Things . . 28 VI How Essence, Genus and Difference Exist in Acci dents 33 BIBLIOGRAPHY 39 GLOSSARY 43 vii PREFACE IN RECENT times St. Thomas Aquinas has come to suggest problems and solutions which are of the first order of im portance for speculative thought. And I do not mean merely for the history of philosophy or for the cloister-like seclusionof the class room in mediaeval philosophy. He is something more than a mere interval in the creative advance of evolution. First principles never become obsolete, and the doctrine of St. Thomas is replete with steady and rigorous ideas which can accomplish much in clarifying the present confusion of the arts and sciences. It is therefore time that he should leave the company of Latin scholars with their forbidding array of critical apparatus, footnotes, comments upon and citations of compara tive sources, and the dead weight of the gloss which preserves the letter but destroys the spirit. This translation of the De Ente et Essentia renders into Eng lish a very compact and highly significant matrix of arguments concerning the status of essence, being and existence. As a preparation for its principal task the opusculum examines the character of incomplex terms, genus, species and difference, how they stand to each other within the defined whole of an essence and in so doing how the incomplex terms are signs which signify the nature of individuated and unified substantial wholes existing in nature independently of the human mind. In addition, when St. Thomas passes from corporeal substances as such to intelligences, man and the angels, an example is given of the rhetorical shift by which scholastic thought effected the trope from the literal to the figurative. This rhetorical shift ix x PREFACE is in itself a study in the' superposition' of concepts or iso morphic relationships. Modern formal logic makes the excessive claim that it has accomplished the first real advance in logic since Aristotle. If indeed it has measurably multiplied the modes of predication and relational order whichcan be grasped by voluntary synthetic acts of thought, still it most certainly has not clarified the modes of signification ( symbolic reference) handled so astutely by the scholastics. The reader, if he is accustomed to the inorganic and loose discursiveness of modern philosophy, nay, at times its almost total lack of order and discipline, may find that it requires a special act of the will to master the concepts of St. Thomas. But if he does master even the brief content of this little work he will find himself possessed of what may be called a prolegomena to every

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1905 Edition.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1905 Edition.

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