Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Thomistic philosophical-theological reflection on the human intellect’s comprehension of being and essence through language culminates in the affirmation that in God, essence is identical with being. The logical and ontological trajectory followed by the Dominican thinker includes key distinctions: separate substances, in which essence differs from being and is identical with form; composite substances, in which essence differs from being and coincides with the matter-form compound; and accidents, whose essence is incomplete and relative, as it includes their subject in the definition. The central aim of the De ente et essentia is to grasp the essence of the supreme Being and of other beings through a discourse that makes knowledge possible by analysing the meanings of the names that signify being. The central role of essence in this ‘grammar of being’ underlies the ontological solidarity among different levels of reality, from the highest to the lowest.
Source: Verbum
DOI: 10.62229/vb-v/24/1
Authors: Institutul de Științe Politice și Relații Internaționale „Ion I. C. Brătianu” al Academiei Române – București, Lorena-Valeria Stuparu
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4411422402