Form and being : studies in Thomistic metaphysics / Lawrence Dewan.
| Author/creator | Dewan, Lawrence |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, ©2006. |
| Description | xv, 265 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents only |
| Subjects |
| Series | Studies in philosophy and the history of philosophy ; v. 45 Studies in philosophy and the history of philosophy ; v. 45. ^A61641 |
| 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. |
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| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-254) and indexes. |
| LCCN | 2005033359 |
| ISBN | 0813214610 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780813214610 |