Aquinas on Efficient Causation and Causal Powers

ISBN-13: 9781009225427 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 288 str.

Minnesota) Frost Gloria (University of St Thomas

Opis

This book reconstructs and analyses Aquinas's theories of efficient causation and causal powers.

Spis treści

Introduction; Part I. The Elements of Paradigm Instances of Efficient Causation: 1. Background and Overview of Aquinas's Theories; 2. Efficient Causation: The Paradigm Case and its Features and Conditions; 3. Active Powers; 4. Natural Inclination and Final Causality; 5. Passive Powers; 6. Action and Passion; Part II. Complications: 7: Non-Paradigm Cases: Efficient Causes within Networks, Absences and Sine Qua Non Causation; 8. Efficient Causes Which Act Through Another Cause's Power; Conclusion.