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Metaphysics between experience and transcendence : Thomas Aquinas on metaphysics as a science
- Title
- Metaphysics between experience and transcendence : Thomas Aquinas on metaphysics as a science / Rudi A. te Velde.
- Author
- Velde, Rudi te
- Publication
- Münster : Aschendorff Verlag, [2021]
- ©2021
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- Description
- vii, 246 pages; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "Metaphysics, in its classical sense, is the study of being. But what does it mean, this seemly old-fashioned word, "being"? And how does metaphysics relate to the world of human experience if it it is said to go beyond physics? Is being something hidden behind the veil of experience? Are we in danger, in atempting to defend the idea of experience? ARe we in danger, in attempting to defend the idea of metaphysic, to become Hinterweltler (Nietzsche)? These are relevannt questions for anyone who wants to now, today, what we can still learn from the 'old' metaphysics from the Aristotelian tradition, of which Thomas Aquinas was one the most eloquent and insightful defenders. This book offers a philosophical analysis of metaphysics as conceived and practised by Thomas. Its aim is not to present another exposition of the doctrine of Thomas metaphysics; its focus is on the characteristic movement of metaphysics, going from the world of experience to the divine principle of all being. By a close reading and interpretation of the relevant texts, it seeks to clarify the specific dynamics of the science of metaphysics, as present in the works of Aquinas. In the Aristotelian tradition, metaphysics exhibts a typical ontotheological orientation, as the study of being in general and the study of divine being. Going against a general tendency in the Thomistic tradition to loosen metaphysics ontology from its theological part, this book presents a fresh and innovate reading which emphasizes the inner unity of metaphysics"-- Back cover.
- Series Statement
- Beiträge zur Geschichte der Philosophie und Theologie des Mittelalters, 0067-5024 ; neue Folge, Band 87
- Uniform Title
- Beiträge zur Geschichte der Philosophie und Theologie des Mittelalters ; n.F., Bd. 87.
- Alternative Title
- Thomas Aquinas on metaphysics as a science
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [229]-241) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Metaphysics in discussion : The medieval context -- The degrees of abstraction and the metaphysical Separatio -- From physics to metaphysics : the way of Resolutio -- The transcendental focus of metaphysics -- The place of analogy in metaphysics -- From experience to transcendence -- The double challenge to metaphysics in the present-day world.
- Call Number
- JFE 21-6740
- ISBN
- 9783402103074
- 3402103079
- LCCN
- 9783402103074
- OCLC
- 1247674705
- Author
- Velde, Rudi te, author.
- Title
- Metaphysics between experience and transcendence : Thomas Aquinas on metaphysics as a science / Rudi A. te Velde.
- Publisher
- Münster : Aschendorff Verlag, [2021]
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Beiträge zur Geschichte der Philosophie und Theologie des Mittelalters, 0067-5024 ; neue Folge, Band 87Beiträge zur Geschichte der Philosophie und Theologie des Mittelalters ; n.F., Bd. 87.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [229]-241) and index.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 9783402103074
- Research Call Number
- JFE 21-6740