The Knowableness Of God: Its Relation To The Theory Of Knowledge In St. Thomas
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- The Knowableness Of God: Its Relation To The Theory Of Knowledge In St. Thomas
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- His Manifestations
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The Knowableness Of God: Its Relation To The Theory Of Knowledge In St. Thomas
Author: Schumacher, Matthew, 1879-1966
Year: 1905
CONTENTS. Introduction 1 Historical 10 CHAPTER I. THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE. SECTION I. General Principles of Knowledge 33 a. Union of Subject and Object 36 b. Object Known according to the Nature of the Subject 41 c. Immateriality and Actuality of Subject and Object 46 SECTION II. Theory of Intellectual Knowledge 54 a. Prime and Connatural Object of the Intellect 54 b. Active and Passive Intellects 58 c. Intelligible Species, Completion of the Act of Knowledge 64 SECTION III. Validity of Knowledge 65 a. Sensible and Intellectual 67 b. Adaequatio Rei et Intellectus 73 c. Relativity of Knowledge 79 SECTION IV. Causality and Knowledge 83 CHAPTER II. THE KNOWABLENESS OF GOD. SECTION I. Existence of God 95 a. Relation between Chapters I. and II 96 b. Existence and Conception, Relation of 98 c. Existence of God — How Known? 99 1. Ontological Argument, not by 101 2. Demonstration, by 106 3. Innatism of Aquinas 109 4. Arguments to Prove Existence of God 116 SECTION II. The First Cause 119 SECTION III. Nature of God 130 a. Infinitely Knowable in Itself 132 b. Ontologism Rejected 136 c. Position of Aquinas — God Known by His Manifestations 141 1. Primum Ens 142 2. Remotion, Eminence, Causality 14