Ontology: Or, The Theory of Being; an Introduction to General Metaphysics

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Longmans, Green and Company, 1914 - 439 pagine
 

Sommario

In what Sense are All Things that Exist or can Exist said to be Real or to have Being?
36
Real Being and Logical Being
42
Real Being and Ideal Being
45
Fundamental Distinctions in Real Being
46
CHAPTER II
51
a Possibility Absolute Relative and Adequate
52
b Subjective Potentia Active and Passive
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its Relation to Potentiality
56
Analysis of Change
61
Kinds of Change
68
CHAPTER III
74
Essence
75
Characteristics of Abstract Essences
79
Grounds of those Characteristics
82
Possible Essences as such are Something Distinct from mere Logical Being and from Nothingness
84
Possible Essences have besides Ideal Being no other sort of Being or Reality Proper and Intrinsic to Themselves
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Importance of the Present Category
87
Inferences from our Knowledge of Possible Essences
89
Critical Analysis of those Inferences
91
In what does the Reality of Predicamental Relations Consist?
93
Essences are Intrinsically Possible not because God can make them Exist actually nor yet because He freely wills them to be Possible nor because He ...
95
Distinction between Essence and Existence in actually existing Con tingent or Created Beings
101
State of the Question
103
The Theory of Distinctions in its Application to the Question
104
Solutions of the Question
107
CHAPTER IV
114
Transcendental Unity
115
Kinds of Unity
116
Multitude and Number
118
The Individual and the Universal
120
The Metaphysical Grades of Being in the Individual
122
Individuality
123
The Principle of Individuation
125
Individuation of Accidents
133
Identity
135
Distinction
139
Logical Distinctions and their Grounds
140
The Virtual Distinction and the Real Distinction 38 The Real Distinction and its Tests
142
Some Questionable Distinctions The Scotist Distinction
153
CHAPTER V
158
Ontological Truth Considered Synthetically from the Standpoint of its Ultimate Real Basis
160
Ontological Truth a Transcendental Attribute of Reality 43 Attribution of Falsity to Real Being 158
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CHAPTER VI
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The Good as an End Perfecting the Nature
168
The Perfect Analysis of the Notion of Perfection
171
Objective Factors in the Constitution of the Beautiful
198
Some Definitions of the Beautiful
201
Classifications The Beautiful in Nature
202
The Beautiful in Art Scope and Function of the Fine Arts
203
CHAPTER VIII
207
The Aristotelian Categories
209
The Phenomenist Attack on the Traditional Doctrine of Substance
213
The Scholastic View of our Knowledge in regard to the Existence and Nature of Substances
216
Phenomenist Difficulties against this View Its Vindication
219
Erroneous Views on the Nature of Substance
225
The Nature of Accident Its Relation to Substance Its Causes
232
Main Divisions of Accidents
236
Real Existence of Accidents Nature of the Distinction between Accidents and Substance
240
Modal Accidents and the Modal Distinction
245
Distinction between Substance and its Proper Accidents Unity of the Concrete Being
246
CHAPTER IX
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Substance and Nature
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Subsistence and Personality
261
Distinction between the Individual Nature and its Subsistence What Constitutes Personality?
266
Consciousness of the Personal Self
273
False Theories of Personality
276
CHAPTER X
285
Nature of the Accident called Quality
286
Immediate SubClasses of Quality as Genus Supremum
288
Habits and Dispositions
292
Powers Faculties and Forces
298
Some Characteristics of Qualities
305
CAUSALITY CLASSIFICATION OF CAUSES
307
CHAPTER XI
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Corporeal Substance Quantity and Extension
311
Place and Space
318
its Apprehension and Measurement
322
Eternity
328
Traditional Concept of Cause
357
Material and Formal Causes
364
Classification of Efficient Causes
372
CHAPTER XIV
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a The First Cause
388
Erroneous Theories of Efficient Causality Imagination and Thought
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CHAPTER XV
404
Causality of the Final Cause Relation of the Latter to Efficient Formal
411
The Order of the Universe A Fact and its Implications
428
INDEX
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Pagina 31 - Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before, But vaster.
Pagina 277 - I think, is a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, the same thinking thing, in different times and places...
Pagina 228 - Per substantiam intelligo id, quod in se est et per se concipitur; hoc est id, cujus conceptus non indiget conceptu alterius rei, a quo formari debeat.
Pagina 213 - The idea then we have, to which we give the general name substance, being nothing but the supposed but unknown support of those qualities we find existing, which we imagine cannot subsist, "sine re substante," without something to support them, we call that support substantia; which, according to the true import of the word, is in plain English, standing under or upholding.
Pagina 380 - ... experience. The Law of Causation, the recognition of which is the main pillar of inductive science, is but the familiar truth that invariability of succession is found by observation to obtain between every fact in nature and some other fact which has preceded It, independently of all considerations respecting the ultimate mode of production of phenomena, and of every other question regarding the nature of "Things in themselves.
Pagina 277 - ... are three names standing for three different ideas; for such as is the idea belonging to that name, such must be the identity...
Pagina 432 - Nell'ordine ch'io dico sono accline tutte nature, per diverse sorti, più al principio loro e men vicine; onde si muovono a diversi porti per lo gran mar dell'essere, e ciascuna con istinto a lei dato che la porti. Questi ne porta il foco inver la luna, questi ne' cor mortali è permotore, questi la terra in sé stringe e aduna.
Pagina 276 - This also shows wherein the identity of the same man consists; viz. in nothing but a participation of the same continued life, by constantly fleeting particles of matter, in succession vitally united to the same organized body.
Pagina 187 - O the depth of the riches of the wisdom and of the knowledge of God ! How incomprehensible are his judgments, and how unsearchable his ways!
Pagina 276 - That being then one plant which has such an organization of parts in one coherent body par.taking of one common life, it continues to be the same plant as long as it partakes of the same life, though that life be communicated to new particles of matter vitally united to the living plant, in a like continued organization conformable to that sort of plants.

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