On The Borders Of Being And Knowing Late Scholastic Theory Of Supertranscendental Being
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9789058678959
Description: Sylvester Mauro, S.J. (1619-1687) noted that human intellects can grasp what is, what is not, what can be, and what cannot be. The first principle, 'it is not possible that the same thing simultaneously be and not be, ' involves them all. The present volume begins with Greeks distinguishing 'being' from 'something' and proceeds to the late Scholastic doctrine of 'supertranscendental being', which embraces both. On the way is Aristotle's distinction between 'being as being' and 'being as true' and his extension of the latter to include impossible objects.