Aquinas, Geach, and existence
Aquinas' theory of being has received a growing amount of attention from contemporary scholars, both from a historic and a philosophical point of view. An important source of this attention is Geach's seminal Form and Existence. In it, Geach argues that Aquinas subscribes to (i) a tensed n...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Innsbruck in cooperation with the John Hick Centre for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Birmingham
[2019]
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European journal for philosophy of religion
Year: 2019, Volume: 11, Issue: 3, Pages: 175-195 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Thomas Aquinas 1225-1274
/ Being
/ Existence
/ Omniscience
/ Geach, P. T. 1916-2013
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| IxTheo Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism CB Christian life; spirituality FA Theology |
| Further subjects: | B
Future contingents
B Aquinas B God's foreknowledge B Being B Existence |
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| Summary: | Aquinas' theory of being has received a growing amount of attention from contemporary scholars, both from a historic and a philosophical point of view. An important source of this attention is Geach's seminal Form and Existence. In it, Geach argues that Aquinas subscribes to (i) a tensed notion of existence and (ii) a theory of time according to which past and future entities do not exist in act. Subsequent commentators, such as Kenny in his Aquinas on Being, have agreed with Geach on both points. In this paper, I argue that in several passages of his corpus, most notably those in which he is concerned with God's knowledge of future contingents, Aquinas implicitly subscribes to a theory of being and time according to which: (i) past and future entities are attributed existence in act, (ii) there is theoretical need for introducing a tenseless notion of existence. |
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| Reference: | Kritik in "Aquinas on the Existence of the Future (2020)"
Kritik in "Aquinas on Predication and Future Contingents. A Reply to Costa (2020)" |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: European journal for philosophy of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.24204/ejpr.v11i3.2837 |