
Scholastic Metaphysics
A Contemporary Introduction
Edward Feser(Author)
Editiones Scholasticae (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 4. September 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
302 pages
978-3-86838-544-1 (ISBN)
Description
Scholastic Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction provides an overview of Scholastic approaches to causation, substance, essence, modality, identity, persistence, teleology, and other issues in fundamental metaphysics. The book interacts heavily with the literature on these issues in contemporary analytic metaphysics, so as to facilitate the analytic reader's understanding of Scholastic ideas and the Scholastic reader's understanding of contemporary analytic philosophy. The Aristotelian theory of actuality and potentiality provides the organizing theme, and the crucial dependence of Scholastic metaphysics on this theory is demonstrated. The book is written from a Thomistic point of view, but Scotist and Suarezian positions are treated as well where they diverge from the Thomistic position.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Neunkirchen-Seelscheid
Germany
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 148 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
398 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-86838-544-1 (9783868385441)
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Person
Edward Feser is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Pasadena City College in Pasadena, California, USA. His most recent books include Aquinas and The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism, and the edited volume Aristotle on Method and Metaphysics.
Content
Introduction
1. Act and potency
2. Causation
3. Substance
4. Essence and existence
1. Act and potency
2. Causation
3. Substance
4. Essence and existence