Is the Thomistic Doctrine of God as "Ipsum Esse Subsistens" Consistent?
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https://doi.org/10.24204/ejpr.v10i4.2600Keywords:
Aquinas, God, being, existence, event, metaphysics, ontologyAbstract
The aims of my paper are (i) to set out Aquinas’s arguments in favour of the thesis of God as Subsistent Being itself; (ii) set out the arguments against; and (iii) propose a fresh reading of that thesis that takes into account both Thomistic doctrine and the criticisms of it. In this way, I shall proceed as in a medieval quaestio, with arguments in favour, sed contra and respondeo.
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