Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Titlepage
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 Metaphysics in Discussion: The Medieval Context
• 1.1. METAPHYSICS IN THE MEDIEVAL CONTEXT
• 1.2. THE DEBATE ON THE ‘SUBJECT’ OF METAPHYSICS
• 1.3. THE SCIENTIFIC PROFILE OF METAPHYSICS
• 1.4. AN ALTERNATIVE POSITION: SIGER OF BRABANT
• 1.5. A CONTEMPORARY APPROACH: JOHN HALDANE’S VERSION OF A THOMISTIC METAPHYSICS
• 1.6. DE ENTE ET ESSENTIA: A TREATISE OF METAPHYSICS?
• Chapter 2 The Degrees of Abstraction and the Metaphysical Separatio
• 2.1. INTRODUCTION: THE COMMENTARY ON BOETHIUS’S DE TRINITATE
• 2.2. THE DIVISION OF THE SCIENCES ACCORDING TO THEIR OBJECT
• 2.3. THE DOCTRINE OF THE DEGREES OF ABSTRACTION
• 2.4. THE METAPHYSICAL ABSTRACTION: SEPARATIO
• 2.5. THE ACT OF SEPARATION AS A NEGATIVE JUDGEMENT
• 2.6. IS PRIOR KNOWLEDGE OF AN IMMATERIAL BEING REQUIRED BY THE SEPARATIO?
• 2.7. THE TRANSITION FROM PHYSICS TO METAPHYSICS: THE PROOF OF THE FIRST MOVER
• Chapter 3 From Physics to Metaphysics: The Way of Resolutio
• 3.1. THE VIA RESOLUTIONIS
• 3.2. FROM PHYSICS TO METAPHYSICS (RATIO AND INTELLECTUS)
• 3.3. METAPHYSICS AND THE WAY TOWARDS THE CONSIDERATION OF BEING AS BEING
• 3.4. THE CIRCULARITY IN OUR KNOWLEDGE OF GOD AND WORLD
• 3.5. BY WAY OF CONCLUSION: FROM PHYSICS TO METAPHYSICS
• Chapter 4 The Transcendental Focus of Metaphysics
• 4.1. INTRODUCTION: ON CATEGORIES AND TRANSCENDENTALS
• 4.2. THE DIVISION OF BEING INTO CATEGORIES
• 4.3. THE EXPLICATION OF BEING ACCORDING TO DE VERITATE 1,1
• 4.4. TRANSCENDENTALS AND THE PLATONIC HYPOSTASIZING OF FORMS
• 4.5. THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ‘BEING’ AND ‘DOING’ (FIRST ACT AND SECOND ACT)
• 4.6. CONCLUSION: METAPHYSICS AS TRANSCENDENTAL SCIENCE?
• Chapter 5 The Place of Analogy in Metaphysics
• 5.1. INTRODUCTION: THE DOUBLE MOVEMENT OF ANALOGY
• 5.2. THE ANALOGOUS LIKENESS BETWEEN CREATURES AND GOD
• 5.3. THE DOCTRINE OF THE ANALOGIA ENTIS AS A WORLDVIEW
• 5.4. ‘BEING IS SAID ANALOGOUSLY’
• 5.5. ANALOGY AS APPLIED TO THE DIVINE NAMES
• 5.6. CONCLUSION: ANALOGY AND THE ‘THREEFOLD WAY‘
• Chapter 6 From Experience to Transcendence
• 6.1. INTRODUCTION: THE MEDIATORY ROLE OF METAPHYSICS
• 6.2. TO THE LIMITS OF EXPERIENCE AND BEYOND
• 6.3. THE HUMAN INTELLECT AS A NIGHT OWL
• 6.4. THE THESIS OF THE INTELLIGIBILITY OF BEING
• 6.5. THE IDEA OF THE CONCRETE WHOLE OF BEING
• Chapter 7 The Challenges to Metaphysics in the Present-Day World
• 7.1. THE FORMULA ‘BEING AS BEING’
• 7.2. METAPHYSICS AS CRITIQUE OF NATURALISM
• 7.3. THE ONTO-THEOLOGICAL STRUCTURE OF METAPHYSICS (HEIDEGGER)
• 7.4. A TENTATIVE EVALUATION OF AQUINAS’S APPROACH TO (THE NOTION OF) BEING
• 7.5. THE ‘CONCEPT OF BEING’ IN SUÁREZ
• 7.6. A THEOLOGY WITHOUT BEING?
• 7.7. CONCLUSION: METAPHYSICS AS THE SCIENCE OF PRESUPPOSITIONS
• Bibliography
• Index