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Selection from St. Thomas Aquinas On Being and Essence. Trans. Armand Maurer, C.S.B., cc. 1-11. 1. A small mistake in the beginning is a big one in the end, according to the Philosopher in the first book of On the Heavens and the Earth. And as Ibn-Sînâ says in the beginning of his Metaphysics, being and essence are what is first conceived by ...
18. März 2021 · English. 79 pages ; 20 cm. Offers more the reader more aids -- including notes and a commentary -- than does any other translation. Translation of: De ente et essentia. Includes bibliographical references (pages 73-76) and index. Access-restricted-item.
which Aquinas refers, Aristotle contrasts “coincidental being” (ens per accidens) with “non-coincidental being” [ens per se]. A coincidental being is something identified on the basis of merely coincidental fea-tures, on account of which it would belong to two different categories; for example, a tall musician,
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3. Dez. 2003 · The first of the three defects alleged above – that Aquinas fails to distinguish being and existence – is hard to evaluate. This is the only one of the three that calls directly into question Aquinas’s conception of being. But Kenny does not make it very clear just what the problem is here.
Being and essence are the beginning points of knowledge by the intellect. One must guard, therefore, against making mistakes about being and essence; for it is obvious that a single and simple error at a beginning point easily turns all that follows after into a multiple and complex one.
26. Sept. 2002 · Anthony Kenny offers a critical examination of a central metaphysical doctrine of Thomas Aquinas, the greatest of the medieval philosophers. Aquinas's account of being is famous and influential: but Kenny argues that it in fact suffers from systematic confusion. Because of the centrality of the doctrine, this has implications for ...
By Anthony Kenny. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002; 224 pp.; hb. ¿ 35.00, pb. ¿ 14.99; ISBN: 0-19-823847-9/0-19-927944-6. [1] Anthony Kenny's new book Aquinas on Being is a thought-provoking study in its severe criticism and analytical disentanglement of the multiple confu-sions Aquinas' account of `being' supposedly suffers from.
