On the borders of being and knowing: some late scholastic thoughts on supertranscendental being
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Main Author: Doyle, John P. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leuven, Belgium Leuven University Press c2012
Series:Ancient and medieval philosophy 44
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Item Description:Sylvester Mauro, S.J. (1619-1687) noted that human intellects can grasp what is, what is not, what can be, and what cannot be. The first principle, 'it is not possible that the same thing simultaneously be and not be, ' involves them all. The present volume begins with Greeks distinguishing 'being' from 'something' and proceeds to the late Scholastic doctrine of 'supertranscendental being', which embraces both. On the way is Aristotle's distinction between 'being as being' and 'being as true' and his extension of the latter to include impossible objects
Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-318) and index
Sprouts from Greek gardens : Antisthenes, Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics -- Suárez on beings of reason and truth -- Extrinsic cognoscibility -- Impossible objects -- The teleology of impossible objects -- Beings of reason and imagination -- Four degrees of abstraction -- From transcendental to transcendental -- Supertranscendental nothing -- Wrestling with a wraith -- The borders of knowability -- Conclusion
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 326 p.)
ISBN:9058678954
9461660685
9789058678959
9789461660688

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