Studies in Analogy

ISBN-13: 9789401503341 / Angielski / Miękka / 1968 / 137 str.

Ralph M. McInerny

Opis

The present volume brings together a number of things I have written on the subject of analogy since the appearance of The Logic of Analogy in 1961. In that book I tried to disengage St Thomas' teaching on analogous names from various subsequent accretions which, in my opinion, had obscured its import. The book was widely reviewed, various points in it were rightly criticized, but its main argument, namely, that analogical signification is a logical matter and must be treated as such, was, if often confronted, left finally, I think, standing. The studies brought together now reflect the same concentration on the teaching of Aquinas. I am not of the opinion that everything important on the question of analogy, and certainly not everything of importance on those problems which elicit the doctrine of analogy, was said by Thomas Aquinas. But it was my decision, for my personal work, first to achieve as much clarity as I could with respect to the teaching of Thomas, and then to go on to other writers, both ancient and modern. I am currently engaged in working out the relations among equivo cation, analogy and metaphor in Aristotle. When that study is com pleted, I shall turn eagerly to some quite recent contributions to the nature of religious language. In short, the present work, which is by and large a prolongation of my attempt at an exegesis of Thomistic texts, marks the end of one phase of my research into the problem of analogy."

Spis treści

I: The “Ratio Communis” of the Analogous Name.- I. Texts which reject a ratio communis.- II. Texts which imply a ratio communis.- III. The analogy of names.- 1. The Imposition of Names.- 2. Id a quo nomen imponitur.- 3. Ways of Signifying.- 4. Ways of Being Named.- 5. The Extension of the Name.- IV. Some analogous names.- 1. “Virtue” as Analogous Name.- 2. “Passion” as Analogous Name.- 3. “Word” as Analogous Word.- V. Analogy and Metaphorical Usage.- VI. Being is not a Genus.- 1. Species cannot be Predicated of Difference.- 2. Genus cannot be Predicated of Difference.- 3. Genus and Inequality.- 4. Aside on “Ens commune”.- VII. Resolution and Conclusion.- II: Metaphor and Analogy.- I. Cajetan on metaphor.- II. Analogy vs. Metaphor.- III. Ratio Propria non invenitur nisi in uno.- IV. The signification of names.- V. Ratio communis and ratio propria.- VI. Proprie, Communiter, Metaphorice.- VII. Concluding summary.- III: Metaphor and fundamental ontology.- IV: “Analogy” is analogous.- V: Reply to a Critic.- I. Cajetan and Intrinsic and Extrinsic denomination.- II. Professor Beach as exegete.- III. Professor Beach’s confusion of the Logical and Real.- VI: Is the term soul analogous?.