AQUINAS AND THE DIVINES ATTRIBUTES

This paper describes some of the key mechanisms used by Aquinas to deal with the divine attributes. Arising from the multiplicity and complexity of these attributes a number of problems which, in our view, are understood by Aquinas as likely to be settled only through a correct choice of the most ap...

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Autor: Lobo, Lucio Souza
Tipo de documento: artigo
Estado:Versão publicada
Data de publicação:2010
País:Brasil
Recursos:Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG)
Repositório:Revista philósophos
Idioma:português
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.revistas.ufg.br:article/12422
Acesso em linha:https://revistas.ufg.br/philosophos/article/view/12422
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:divine attributes
similarity
analogy.
atributos divinos
similitude
analogia.
Descrição
Resumo:This paper describes some of the key mechanisms used by Aquinas to deal with the divine attributes. Arising from the multiplicity and complexity of these attributes a number of problems which, in our view, are understood by Aquinas as likely to be settled only through a correct choice of the most appropriate philosophical instrument for each case. Univocal cause and equivocal cause, res significata and modus significandi, analogy, negative way and way of eminence, similarity, axiom of nowhere, among others, are presented in a sequence that we consider easier to understand. Finally, our purpose is mainly to introduce the reader to Aquinas’s modus of proceeding about this topic.