Heinrich von Gent über Metaphysik als erste Wissenschaft: Studien zu einem Metaphysikentwurf aus dem letzten Viertel des 13. Jahrhunderts

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BRILL, Mar 31, 2007 - Philosophy - 416 pages
The last 30 years have seen a revived interest in Henry of Ghent, one of the leading theologians at the University of Paris in the last quarter of the 13th century. This volume offers a new and comprehensive study of a central aspect of Henry’s philosophical thought: his understanding of metaphysics.
The study examines why, according to Henry, there has to be a science investigating being qua being and how such an inquiry is at all possible. In Henry’s conception, metaphysics is not just one scientific discipline among others but the first and fundamental one for it deals with the first object of the intellect as its subject-matter. The recognition of this understanding, as the present study intends to show, opens a new perspective on the proper philosophical dimension of Henry of Ghent’s thought.
 

Contents

Einleitung
1
I Natürliches Wissen und die Reichweite der menschlichen Vernunft
19
II Der Gegenstand der Metaphysik
81
III Seiendes als Ersterkanntes des menschlichen Intellekts
129
IV Seiendes und Sache
183
V Die Lehre von den transzendentalen Eigenschaften des Seienden
245
VI Philosophische Gotteserkenntnis
307
Konklusion
363
Zur Authentizität des Metaphysikkommentars in ms Escorial h II 1
369
Bibliographie
375
Register
395
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