Coming to be : toward a Thomistic-Whiteheadian metaphysics of becoming
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Coming to be : toward a Thomistic-Whiteheadian metaphysics of becoming
（SUNY series in philosophy）
State University of New York Press, c2001
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- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-133) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book explores the possibility of using the twentieth-century "process" philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead to modernize the thirteenth-century metaphysics of St. Thomas Aquinas in order to make better philosophical sense of the evolutionary processes of the world. Due to certain limitations, neither philosophy has been able to provide satisfactory metaphysical accounts of the world. In joining the two, these individual limitations are avoided, and the advantages of each—Thomistic metaphysics with its deeper ontology, Whiteheadian metaphysics with its ability to account for the evolutionary advances now apparent in the universe—provide a revised theory that is a kind of "process-enriched Thomism."
Table of Contents
Preface 1. Sketch of the Project
1.1 Development in Philosophy
1.2 Strengths of Thomas's Metaphysics
1.3 Weaknesses of Thomas's Metaphysics
1.4 Strengths of Whitehead's Metaphysics
1.5 Weaknesses of Whitehead's Metaphysics
1.6 General Contours of a Revised Metaphysics
2. Metaphysics and Experience
2.1 Metaphysics as Making Sense of Experience
2.2 Some Main Characteristics of Experience
3. Descriptive Model of a Primary Being
3.1 Names and Norms
3.2 The Fundamental Character of a Primary Being
3.3 What to Take and to Leave from Thomas
3.4 What to Take and to Leave from Whitehead
4. Metaphysical Model of a Primary Being
4.1 Some Metaphysical Characteristics of a Primary Being
4.2 The Time of a Primary Being
4.3 Conclusion
5. Thomistic and Whiteheadian Accounts of Coming to Be
5.1 The Thomistic and Whiteheadian Accounts of Coming to Be
5.2 The Whiteheadian Account of Coming o Be
6. A Revised Account of Coming to Be
6.1 Aim and First Assumptions
6.2 The Activity (Agere) of a Primary Being
6.3 The Interactions of Primary Beings
6.4 Coming into Being (Fieri)
7. Evaluation and Prospects
7.1 The Primary Being and Human Experience
7.2 The Primary Being and Thomistic Ontology
7.3 The Consistency of the Theory of Primary Beings
7.4 Requirements for Further Development
7.5 Some Applications to Theology
7.6 Conclusion
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Index
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