Commentary on the Book of causes

種類:

電子ブック

責任表示:

St. Thomas Aquinas ; translated and annotated by Vincent A. Guagliardo, Charles R. Hess, Richard C. Taylor ; introduction by Vincent A. Guagliardo

出版情報:

Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, ©1996

著者名:

• Thomas, 1225?-1274.
• Guagliardo, Vincent A., 1944-
• Hess, Charles R., 1922-1998.
• Taylor, Richard C., 1950-

シリーズ名:

Thomas Aquinas in translation ;

ISBN:

9780813210483 [0813210488]    

注記:

"The Book of Causes, highly influential in the medieval university, was commonly but incorrectly understood to be the completion of Aristotle's metaphysics. It was Thomas Aquinas who first judged it to have been abstracted from Proclus's Elements of Theology, presumably by an unknown Arabic author, who added to it ideas of his own." "The Book of Causes is of particular interest because themes that appear in it are echoed in the metaphysics of Aquinas: its treatment of being (esse) as proceeding from the First Creating Cause; the triadic scheme of being, living, and knowing; and the general scheme of participation in which "all is in all." Thus, the Book of Causes provides a historical backdrop for understanding and appreciating Aquinas's development of these themes in his metaphysics." "Thomas's Commentary on the Book of Causes, composed during the first half of 1272, offers an extended view of his approach to Neoplatonic thought and functions as a guide to his metaphysics. Though long neglected and, until no
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-193)
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