THE PROBLEM OF ADDITON (ADDITIO) TO ENS IN THOMAS AQUINAS Cover Image

PROBLEM DODAVANJA (ADDITIO) BIĆU KOD TOME AKVINSKOG
THE PROBLEM OF ADDITON (ADDITIO) TO ENS IN THOMAS AQUINAS

Author(s): Predrag Milidrag
Subject(s): Metaphysics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Middle Ages, Ontology
Published by: Filozofsko društvo Srbije
Keywords: common being; ens commune; addition; categories; transcendentals; genus and species; divine being; Thomas Aquinas;

Summary/Abstract: The article analyzes the problem of addition to the concept of being (ens) in Thomas Aquinas. The first part analyzes the impossibility of addition to divine being, and the second one is dedicated to the lack of addition in common being (ens commune). Divine being cannot receive any further determinations, common being does not contain any further determinations, but it can receive it. In that context, the difference between adding to generic notions and adding to common being is highlighted. In the third part the De veritate, q. 21, a. 1 is interpreted and it is shown that common being is capable of receiving additions either as a contration of something real to the determinatum modum essendi, or as an expression of the prerfections that are not explicitly contained in being. The first additions are the categories, the second ones are transcendentals.

  • Issue Year: 60/2017
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 110-130
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Serbian