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Res as Transcendental in the Metaphysics of Thomas Aquinas.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Res as Transcendental in the Metaphysics of Thomas Aquinas./
Author:	Vidal, David M.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2020,
Description:	308 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-12, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International81-12A.
Subject:	Philosophy. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=27957675
ISBN:	9798645477028

Res as Transcendental in the Metaphysics of Thomas Aquinas.
Vidal, David M.

Res as Transcendental in the Metaphysics of Thomas Aquinas. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2020 - 308 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-12, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Catholic University of America, 2020.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Among the transcendentals, the primary notion res (thing) has been very much neglected. In fact, Philip the Chancellor (1160-1236) did not include res in the first recorded list of the transcendentals. Afterward, studies of the transcendentals were very much reduced to considerations of being and the Neo-Platonic list of one, good, and true. Res entered the philosophical conversation between medieval Latin authors first with Albert the Great (ca. 1200-1280) and then with Thomas Aquinas's studies of Avicenna's Metaphysics. The proximate inspiration for this development was the distinction Avicenna (980-1037) drew between the notion of 'thing (Sayʼ)' and the notion of 'being (Mawjud).' Thomas Aquinas (1224/25-1274) took Avicenna's distinction and placed it within the framework of his own metaphysics in which the distinction between essence and esse (actus essendi) plays a fundamental role. Thomas's discovery of esse as the act of all acts guided his new understanding of being. Thus, Thomas was able to conclude that being signifies the act of being (actus essendi) and res signifies the essence. Thomas's distinction was not adopted by other contemporary and later Scholastic thinkers. Henry of Ghent (ca. 1217-1293), John Duns Scotus (ca. 1266-1308), and Francisco Suarez (1548-1617) offered a different description of being by emphasizing the signification of essence, or quiddity. As a result, not only does the real distinction of essence-esse vanish, but also the conceptual distinction of being and res loses its foundation. Following this trend, even metaphysics, or the science of being, could mutate into tinology, or the science of thing. This dissertation analyzes the primary notion res in the context of Thomas's metaphysics, and particularly, of Thomas's understanding of the real distinction of essence-esse. In this context, Thomas affirms that being and res are identical in reality (in re), but different conceptually. In the same context, Thomas distinguishes conceptual being and conceptual res from the being or res that is outside of the mind. Furthermore, on the basis of his doctrine of analogy, Thomas is also able to ascend from created beings to the Uncreated Being and from created res to the Uncreated Res.

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