The Metaphysics of Theism Aquinas's Natural Theology in Summa Contra Gentiles I,9780199246533

The Metaphysics of Theism Aquinas's Natural Theology in Summa Contra Gentiles I

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ISBN13: 9780199246533
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Pub. Date: 2002-02-07
Publisher(s): Clarendon Press
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Summary

The Metaphysics of Theism is the definitive study of the natural theology of Thomas Aquinas, the greatest of medieval philosophers, written by one of the world's most eminent scholars of medieval thought. Natural theology is the investigation by analysis and rational argument of fundamental questions about reality, considered in relation to God. Professor Kretzmann shows the continuing value of Aquinas's doctrines to the philosophical enterprise today; he argues that natural theology offers the only route by which philosophers can, as philosophers, approach theological propositions, and that the one presented in this book is the best available natural theology.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations xii
Introduction 1(1)
Aims of this book
1(2)
Attitudes toward natural theology
3(2)
Alston on natural theology
5(4)
'The Reformed Objection to Natural Theology'
9(11)
Conclusion
20(3)
Theology from the Bottom Up
23(31)
Theology and Philosophy
23(2)
Theology in Philosophy
25(2)
Aquinas's work
27(2)
ST and catholica veritas
29(3)
ST and sacra doctrina
32(7)
Sacra doctrina and natural theology
39(4)
The purpose of SCG
43(4)
The pedagogical motivation for SCG
47(4)
Summa philosophica
51(3)
The God of the Self-Movers
54(30)
The place of existence arguments in natural theology
54(1)
How Aquinas sets the stage for natural theology in SCG
55(5)
The arguments for God's existence in SCG 1.13
60(4)
The structure of G2
64(1)
The stages of G2
65(19)
The Existence of Alpha
84(29)
Orientation
84(2)
How to proceed
86(2)
How Aquinas proceeds in SCG
88(2)
Two presuppositions of Aquinas's procedure
90(1)
A Third presupposition: the eliminative method
91(4)
The existence of Alpha
95(18)
From Independence to Perfection
113(26)
Reorientation
113(3)
The eliminative method and argument G6
116(1)
Applying the results of the eliminative method to Alpha generally
117(4)
Eliminating the distinction between Alpha's nature and being
121(7)
The metaphysics of Exodus
128(1)
Alpha's separateness, God's transcendence
129(2)
Perfection
131(7)
Concluding observations
138(1)
From Perfection to Infinity
139(30)
Methodology
139(1)
The extensive aspect of absolute perfection
140(2)
The introduction of terminological sameness
142(2)
Likeness and agent causation generally
144(3)
Univocal and equivocal causation
147(3)
The sun as an equivocal cause
150(4)
God as partly univocal, partly equivocal cause
154(4)
Goodness, uniqueness, and infinity
158(2)
God's uniqueness
160(5)
God's infinity
165(4)
Intellect
169(28)
Simplicity and other attributes
169(4)
Intellect's place in the extensive aspect of universal perfection
173(2)
Intellectivity, reason, and wisdom
175(6)
The argument from perfection
181(3)
The intellectivity argument
184(10)
Behind the scenes of the intellectivity argument
194(3)
Will
197(29)
Will and personhood
197(2)
The universal appetite for good
199(2)
Will as intellective appetite for what is good
201(2)
Arguments from intellect
203(5)
Will, goodness, and freedom
208(5)
Determinate, static, choiceless volition in God
213(4)
God's willing of other things
217(3)
Freedom of choice and motives for choosing
220(3)
The Dionysian principle and the necessitarian explanation of creation
223(3)
Joy, Love, and Liberality
226(29)
Passions and attitudes
226(5)
Intellective attitudes
231(1)
God's pleasure and joy
232(6)
God's love
238(12)
God's liberality
250(5)
Appendix I: A Chronology of Aquinas's Life and Works 255(8)
Appendix II: A Table Indicating the Correspondence between Sections of Chapters of SCG I in the Pera (Marietti) Edition and the Pegis Translation 263(8)
References 271(6)
Index Iocorum 277(8)
General index 285

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