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Aquinas on the Divine Ideas as Exemplar Causes
Gregory T. Doolan
Catholic University of America Press, 2008
Gregory T. Doolan provides here the first detailed consideration of the divine ideas as causal principles. He examines Thomas Aquinas's philosophical doctrine of the divine ideas and convincingly argues that it is an essential element of his metaphysics
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The Science of Being as Being
Metaphysical Investigations
Gregory T. Doolan
Catholic University of America Press, 2012
Scholars present studies on key philosophical and historical issues in the field. Though varied, the investigations address three major metaphysical themes: the subject matter of metaphysics, metaphysical aporiae, and philosophical theology.
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Summa metaphysicae ad mentem Sancti Thomae
Essays in Honor of John F. Wippel
Therese Scarpelli Cory
Catholic University of America Press, 2023
This volume is a tribute to Fr. John F. Wippel. Following the philosophical order that Aquinas might have adopted “had he chosen to write a Summa metaphysicae”—an order that Wippel himself lays out in his Metaphysical Thought of Thomas Aquinas—these essays unfold new research on some of the most intriguing topics in Aquinas’s metaphysics, from the most recent generation of scholars formed by Wippel’s pioneering work. The contributors address the discovery of being qua being via separation (Gregory T. Doolan), propter quid metaphysical demonstrations (Philip Neri Reese), the origins of the controversies about the real distinction between essence and esse (Mark Gossiaux), a defense of essence-realism as a key to the real distinction (David Twetten), the relationship of likeness and agency (Therese Scarpelli Cory), created form as act and potency (Stephen Brock), the variation of accidental forms (Gloria Frost), the possibility of angelic judgment (Francis Feingold), argumentation for the existence of God (Gaven Kerr), the propriety of “Qui Est” as a Divine Name (Brian Carl), ‘Beauty’ as a Divine Name (Michael Rubin), and God’s application of creaturely powers to action (Jason Mitchell).
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