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English 2015 ISBN: 0415346444 382 Pages PDF 3.5 MB
Thomas Aquinas is one of the most important figures in the history of philosophy and philosophical theology. Relying on a deep understanding of Aristotle, Aquinas developed a metaphysical framework that is comprehensive, detailed, and flexible. Within that framework, he formulated a range of strikingly original and carefully explicated views in areas including natural theology, philosophy of mind, philosophical psychology, and ethics.
In this book, Christopher Hughes focuses on Aquinas's thought from an analytic philosophical perspective. After an overview of Aquinas's life and works, Hughes discusses Aquinas's metaphysics, including his conception of substance, matter, and form, and his account of essence and existence; and his theory of the nature of human beings, including his critique of a substance dualism that Aquinas attributes to Plato, but is usually associated with Descartes. In the final chapters, Hughes discusses Aquinas's account of the existence and nature of God, and his treatment of the problem of evil, as well as his ideas about the relation of goodness to being, choice, and happiness.
Aquinas on Being, Goodness, and God is essential reading for students and scholars of Aquinas, and anyone interested in philosophy of religion or the history of medieval philosophy.
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Download Aquinas Being And Essence Pdf Online

Furthermore, Aquinas says that matter is something added to its essence. In other words, matter is something outside its essence. Aquinas continues his argument that essence also does not signify a relationship between matter and form. Form and matter are both “characteristics of essence.” Matter is actualized through the form. Consequently, “matter becomes an actual being and this particular thing.” Aquinas writes, “For the being that a composite substance has is not the being of the form alone nor of the matter alone but of the composite.” In other words, the fact that something is ‘being’ is not because of its form alone or its matter alone but because of form that is informed on the matter. It is evident through passage found in Aquinas’ On Being and Essence, that essence is found in composite substances through matter and form together. Although Aristotle does not explicitly state this, he does say so implicitly. This essay will now turn to an interpretation and discuss Aquinas’ argument in relation to Aristotle. Although the material body and its substantial form are metaphysically distinct, neither the human body nor its substantial form alone is a substance. From the Aristotelian perspective, when we first make a distinction as to what a things is, we are acknowledging a thing’s form but not necessarily its matter. Aristotle writes in the

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