CONTENTS & STUDY QUESTIONS
Chapter 1: The need and nature of Metaphysics:
A dialectical probe
Introductory
Thomas' Prologue
Thomas on Aristotle's Introduction
Chapter 2: The Subject of Metaphysics
Dialectical probe: The search for truth
Dialectical probe: methodology
Determination of subject of this science
Place of Metaphysics among the sciences
Other remarks on the subject and place of metaphysics
Chapter 3: Basic notions
Analogy
Causes: a survey
Other texts on causality
More on causes, and other definitions
Chapter 4: The precise nature of being
Real, per se being
Substance
Principles of substance
Quiddity, essence, subsistence, suppositum, person
Synthesis
Chapter 5: Being as divided by potency and act
Preliminaries
Potency and act
Chapter 6: Transcendentals
Transcendentals
"One" & its concomitants
More on transcendentals
Chapter 7: Incorruptible substances
Separate substances, and attributes of God
Existence of God and his governance of world
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