Buch, Englisch, Band 12, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 602 g
Buch, Englisch, Band 12, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 602 g
Reihe: Louvain Philosophical Studies
ISBN: 978-90-6186-777-7
Verlag: LEUVEN UNIV PR
Tracing the historical roots of omne agens agit sibi simile is an indispensable first step in trying to explain the import of this principle in Scholastic Thought. The first part of the book is devoted to this task. it argues that the mediaeval metaphysics of causal similarity is rooted in a conception of the cosmos which goes back to the Presocratics, and according to which being is essentially circular, or self-reflexive. This conception was further elaborated by Plato, Aristotle, the Neoplatonists, and their mediaeval successors. The second part examines omne agens agit sibi simile in Thomistic metaphysics. Without neglecting Aquinas's sources, it attempts to elucidate the structure of his thought in the light of contemporary philosophical questions. It is stressed, for instance, that in Aquinas's thought, causality involves a process of 'concealing revelation" of the cause in and through its effect -an idea which was later to become a central element in Heidegger's philosophy.
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Plato and Aristotle, or the Circularity of Being
- Plotinus and Proclus, or Vertical and Horizontal Causality
- Pseudo-Dionysus and Saint-Augsutine, or Causation and the Trinity
- Eriugena - Causality as Concealing Revelation
- Peter Lombard on Image and Likeness
- Avicenna's Inventory of Causal Similarities. Followed by Some Remarks upon Averoës's Use of "A Man Begets a Man"
- Saint Albert the Great, or Aristotelian Causality and Neoplatonic Flux
- "Synthesis" and "System": Saint Thomas Aquinas's Use of the Scholastic Method
- Aquinas's "Repetition" of the History of Philosophy (1): The Circularity of Being
- Aquinas's "Repetition" of the History of Philosophy (2): Horizontal and vertical Causality
- Aquinas's "Repetition" of the History of Philosophy (3): Causality as Consealing Revelation
- Aquinas's "Repetition" of the History of Philosophy (4): The Trinity
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