Aquinas and maimonides on the possibility of the knowledge of god An examination of the quaestio de attributis /

• Main Author: Rubio, Mercedes (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2006.
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Religion.; Epistemology.; Medieval philosophy.; Metaphysics.; Language and languages > Philosophy.; Religion > Philosophy.; Philosophy of Religion.; Religious Studies, general.; Medieval Philosophy.; Philosophy of Language.

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...

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.