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Author Dewan, Lawrence, 1932-

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

Imprint Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, c2006.

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Description xv, 265 p.
Series Studies in philosophy and the history of philosophy ; v. 45
Studies in philosophy and the history of philosophy ; v. 45.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-254) and indexes.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0813214610 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780813214610

 
    
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