Thinking Being: Introduction to Metaphysics in the Classical Tradition

ISBN: 9789004264205 出版年：2014 页码：228 Eric Perl Brill

Contents Abbreviations Introduction 1. The nature of metaphysics 2. The scope of this study 3. Thought and being Chapter I. Parmenides 1. Milesian background 2. Being and thinking 3. What is being? Chapter II. Plato 1. Reading Plato 2. Being as form 3. The meaning of separation 4. The levels of being 5. The ascent of the soul 6. Knowledge as sunousiva 7. The good 8. The forms and the demiurge 9. The motion of intellect 10. The receptacle of becoming Chapter III. Aristotle 1. The principles of change 2. Nature as form 3. Reality as form: Metaphysics Z 4. The priority of act 5. The unmoved mover 6. Life, sense, and intellect: On the Soul Chapter IV. Plotinus 1. Being and intellect 2. The One beyond being 3. The production of being 4. Transcendence and immanence 5. Being as beauty 6. The sensible and the intelligible 8. The two matters Chapter V. Thomas Aquinas 1. Aquinas and the philosophical tradition 2. Essence and existence 3. God as existence itself 4. Creatures and God 5. Analogical predication 6. The transcendentals Bibliography