Research Catalog

Title

Treatise on separate substances. Translated from a newly-established Latin text based on 12 mediaeval mss., with introd. and notes, by Francis J. Lescoe.

Author

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.

Publication

West Hartford, Conn., Saint Joseph College [©1959]

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Details

Additional Authors

Lescoe, Francis J.

Description

x, 138 pages facsimile; 23 cm

Uniform Title

De substantiis separatis. English

Alternative Title

De substantiis separatis.

Subject

• Substance (Philosophy)
• Angels > Early works to 1800
• Substance (Philosophie)
• Anges > Ouvrages avant 1800
• Angels

Genre/Form

Early works.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. [122]-130.

Contents

Treatise on Separate Substances -- The opinion of the early philosophers and of Plato -- Aristotle's opinion -- How Aristotle and Plato agree -- How the above positions of Plato and Aristotle differ -- The opinion of Avicebron's position -- That of spiritual and corporeal substances there cannot be one matter -- On the refutation of Avicebron's arguments -- Concerning the error of those who posit the angels as not created and its refutation -- Concerning Plato's opinion on the Ideas and its refutation -- On the error o those who hold that all spiritual substances are created equal and its refutation -- On the error o those who say that God and the angels do not have a knowledge of singulars -- In which it is shown that God's providence extends to all things -- Resolution of the aforementioned positions -- The error of the Manicheans concerning the aforementioned points and its refutation -- What must be held according to the Catholic faith with respect to the origin of the angels -- On the condition of the nature of spiritual substances according to faith -- On the disction of spiritual substances according to sacred teaching .

LCCN

59015370

OCLC

• ocm00938803
• 938803
• SCSB-270512

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library