PHIL 765 Metaphysical Themes in Thomas Aquinas I

Based on a close reading of qq. 5 and 6 of Thomas Aquinas's Commentary on the De Trinitate of Boethius and other texts, this course will consider his views concerning the nature and subject of metaphysics, our discovery of being as being, analogical predication of being, participation and the problem of the one and the many, and the distinction and composition of essence and esse in finite beings.