The STUDIA UNIVERSITATIS BABEŞ-BOLYAI issue article summary

The summary of the selected article appears at the bottom of the page. In order to get back to the contents of the issue this article belongs to you have to access the link from the title. In order to see all the articles of the archive which have as author/co-author one of the authors mentioned below, you have to access the link from the author's name.

  
       
         
    STUDIA PHILOSOPHIA - Issue no. 1 / 2011  
         
  Article:   ON BEING AND ESSENCE. SOME OBSERVATIONS REGARDING THE VOCABULARY OF THOMISTIC ONTOLOGY / L’ÊTRE ET L’ESSENCE. QUELQUES OBSERVATIONS SUR LE VOCABULAIRE DE L’ONTOLOGIE THOMISTE.

Authors:  GABRIEL CHINDEA. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  On Being and Essence. Some observations regarding the vocabulary of Thomistic ontology. This paper examines the way in which some Greek philosophical ideas have been interpreted in the Middle Ages and analyses the equivocal historical heritage of the most important concepts of the Thomas Aquinas’s theory on being and essence. The author begins by presenting a short history of this theory, especially of the relation between the Thomistic and the late Greek Platonist philosophical terminology. Then, he discusses the relation between form and act of being to Thomas Aquinas and the difference between these Thomistic ideas and the apparently similar concepts that can be found in the classical Aristotelian tradition.

Keywords: Aristotelianism, Thomism, Platonism, Essence, Being
 
         
     
         
         
      Back to previous page