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  title info:
    title: Aquinas and maimonides on the possibility of the knowledge of god
    sub title: An examination of the quaestio de attributis
  name:
    name part: Rubio, Mercedes.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2006
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: VI, 326 p. online resource.
  abstract: Thomas Aquinas wrote a text later known as Quaestio de attributis and ordered it inserted in a precise location of his Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard more than a decade after composing this work. Aquinas assigned exceptional importance to this text, in which he confronts the debate on the issue of the divine attributes that swept the most important centres of learning in 13th Century Europe and examines the answers given to the problem by the representatives of the four mainstream schools of his time: the Greek mystic Dionysius Areopagita, the Latin Saint Anselm of Canterbury, the Jewish rabbi Moses Maimonides and the Muslim philosopher Ibn Sina. This in-depth study of Thomas Aquinas’ Quaestio de attributis (In I Sent., d. 2, q. 1, a. 3) binds together the findings of previous research on the unique history of this text by reconstructing the historical circumstances surrounding its composition, shows that the Quaestio contains Aquinas’ final answer to the dispute on the divine attributes, and thoroughly examines his interpretation of Maimonides’ position on the issue of the knowledge of God by analysing this and other texts related to it chronologically and doctrinally. The examination of the Quaestio reveals the background of Thomas Aquinas’ renewed interest in Maimonides’ position on the issue and brings to light elements of Aquinas’ interpretation that are absent from his earlier references to Maimonides. Moreover, the chronological and doctrinal connection of the Quaestio de attributis to other Thomistic works with explicit references to Maimonides enables a reconstruction of his comprehensive approach to Maimonides’ teaching on the possibility and extent of the knowledge of God in the Guide of the Perplexed and highlights the place of Maimonides’ philosophical teachings in Thomas’ own thought in issues like "Being" as the proper name of God, the multiplicity of the divine names, the beatific vision in the afterlife, the causes that prevent the ins…
  table of contents: The Dispute on the Divine Attributes -- Aquinas and Maimonides on the Divine Names -- The Quaestio de Attributis and Zechariah 14, 9 -- The Quaestio de Attributis and the Limits of Natural Knowledge -- The Knowledge of the Existence of God.
  note: by Mercedes Rubio.
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Religion
  subject:
    topic: Epistemology
  subject:
    topic: Medieval philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Metaphysics
  subject:
    topic: Language and languages
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Religion
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy of Religion
  subject:
    topic: Religious Studies, general
  subject:
    topic: Medieval Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy of Language
  subject:
    topic: Epistemology
  subject:
    topic: Metaphysics
  classification: BL51
  classification: 210
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      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9781402047473
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4747-9
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    record creation date: 100301
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