Relations Without Forms: Some Consequences of Aquinas’s Metaphysics of Relations
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This article presents a new interpretation and critique of some aspects of Aquinas’s metaphysics of relations, with special reference to a theological problem—the relation of God to creatures—that catalyzed Aquinas’s and much medieval thought on the ontology of relations. I will show that Aquinas’s ontologically reductive theory of categorical real relations should equip him to identify certain relations as real relations, which he actually identifies as relations of reason, most notably the relation of God to creatures.
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Relations Without Forms: Some Consequences of Aquinas’s Metaphysics of Relations
In: VivariumSearch for other papers by Thomas M. Ward in
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Abstract
This article presents a new interpretation and critique of some aspects of Aquinas’s metaphysics of relations, with special reference to a theological problem—the relation of God to creatures—that catalyzed Aquinas’s and much medieval thought on the ontology of relations. I will show that Aquinas’s ontologically reductive theory of categorical real relations should equip him to identify certain relations as real relations, which he actually identifies as relations of reason, most notably the relation of God to creatures.
| All Time | Past 365 days | Past 30 Days | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abstract Views | 512 | 61 | 13 |
| Full Text Views | 85 | 6 | 1 |
| PDF Views & Downloads | 76 | 18 | 4 |