On the Borders of Being and Knowing : Late Scholastic Theory of Supertranscendental Being /

Sylvester Mauro, S.J. (1619-1687) noted that human intellects can grasp what is, what is not, what can be, and what cannot be. The first principle, 'it is not possible that the same thing simultaneously be and not be, ' involves them all. The present volume begins with Greeks distinguishin...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Doyle, John P., 1930-
Other Authors: Salas, Victor M.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Latín
Published: Leuven, Belgium : Leuven University Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Suárez, Francisco, > 1548-1617.
Transcendentals.
Transcendentalism.
Scholasticism.
Ontology.
Knowledge, Theory of.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Ancient & Classical.
PHILOSOPHY > Metaphysics.
scholasticism.
transcendentalism.
epistemology.
ontologies (vocabularies)
Scolastique.
Transcendantalisme.
Transcendantaux.
Theorie de la connaissance.
Ontologie.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Sprouts from Greek gardens : Antisthenes, Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics
  • Suárez on beings of reason and truth
  • Extrinsic cognoscibility
  • Impossible objects
  • The teleology of impossible objects
  • Beings of reason and imagination
  • Four degrees of abstraction
  • From transcendental to transcendental
  • Supertranscendental nothing
  • Wrestling with a wraith
  • The borders of knowability
  • Conclusion.

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