Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I. Aquinas’s De Ente Reasoning and the Cosmological Argument
1. Thomistic Reflections on Leibniz’s a posteriori Reasonings
2. Existence and a Proof for God in Aquinas
3. Neo-Thomist Discussion of the De Ente Reasoning
4. Actus essendi and Analytic Thomism
5. The De Ente Reasoning and Objections to Cosmological Reasoning
Part 2. The De Ente Reasoning and Aquinas’s Proofs for God
6. Aquinas’s Metaphysics and Our Knowledge of God’s Existence
7. A More Robust Version of the De Ente Reasoning
8. Viae for God
9. The viae of the Summa Theologiae and the Compendium Theologiae
10. Other Possible viae
11. Questions and Replies
Conclusion
Selected Bibliography
Index