Being
In this chapter I address three questions. The first concerns the senses of being in Aquinas, in the light of the insights of Frege, namely the distinction between the “there is” sense and the “present actuality” sense of being, as interpreted by Peter Ge
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Aquinas after Frege
Giovanni Ventimiglia
Aquinas after Frege
Giovanni Ventimiglia Theology Faculty University of Lucerne Luzern, Switzerland
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Preface
Aquinas After Frege is a book not about Frege, but about Thomas Aquinas, read afresh in the light of certain insights of Frege. The principal idea of the book is to show how after Frege, Thomas cannot and should not any longer be read through spectacles of a Heideggerian brand, as continues to be done even at the present time, albeit unknowingly, but rather through spectacles of a Fregean brand. Despite this work having been initiated years ago by Peter Geach and Anthony Kenny, today’s students of Thomas’s metaphysics unfortunately still find their agenda of important topics mostly filled by existentialist Thomism à la Gilson, so that the full potential of these authors’ work for a better understanding of Thomas has been left unfulfilled. This book instead intends to release this unexpressed potential, developing it in an original manner to thus demonstrate in detail that, through Fregean spectacles, one sees Thomas better. In particular, it will be demonstrated, I hope, that some of what Thomas has written on metaphysical themes becomes clearer, not only in relation to analogous contemporary debates on such topics within the realm of analytic philosophy, but specifically in relation to the historicophilosophical context of Thomas’s own time. One
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