An accessible and solid entry into the metaphysics of St. Thomas Aquinas.
Introduction
ix
(14)
W. Norris Clarke, S.J.
Preface
xxiii
James F. Anderson
I. What is Metaphysics?
1
(16)
1. On the Division of Speculative Science
2. On the Nature and Excellence of Metaphysics
II. The Subject of Metaphysics
17
(7)
1. On Being as Being
2. The Meaning of Being (ens)
A. In Relation to the Act of Existing (esse)
B. In Relation to Essence
III. Modes and Divisions of Being (ens)
24
(12)
1. Ways of Predicating "Being"
2. The Division of Being by Potency and Act
3. The Real Composition of Essence and Act of Existing
IV. The Analogicity of Being
36
(9)
1. Some Primary Considerations
2. Applications: The Problem of the Analogical Community Between Creatures and God
3. The Basis of Metaphysical Analogy: Diversity in Act of Existing
V. General Introduction to the Transcendentals
45
(4)
1. Their Place among the Divine Names
2. Derivation of the Transcendentals from Being
VI. The Transcendental: One
49
(9)
1. Does one Add Anything to being?
2. Are One and Many Opposed to Each Other?
3. Is God One?
VII. The Transcendental: True
58
(14)
1. What is Truth?
2. Is Truth Found Principally in the Intellect Rather than in Things?
VIII. The Transcendental: Good
72
(16)
1. Does good Add Something to being?
2. Are Being and Goodness Really the Same?
3. Are all Things Good by God's Goodness?
IX. The Transcendental: Beauty
88
(11)
1. Introductory
2. On Beauty and the Divine Beauty
3. The Causality of Beauty
X. Metaphysics as Scientia Divina
99
1. Does Divine Science Treat of Those Things that Exist without Matter and Motion?
2. On the Procedure Proper to Divine Science
3. The Whole of Metaphysics is Ordered to the Knowledge of God
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