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    [fullTitle] => Is the Thomistic Doctrine of God as "Ipsum Esse Subsistens" Consistent?
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The aims of my paper are (i) to set out Aquinas’s arguments in favour of the thesis of God as Subsistent Being itself; (ii) set out the arguments against; and (iii) propose a fresh reading of that thesis that takes into account both Thomistic doctrine and the criticisms of it. In this way, I shall proceed as in a medieval quaestio, with arguments in favour, sed contra and respondeo. 

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                    [givenName] => Giovanni
                    [affiliation] => Universität Luzern
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    [doi] => 10.24204/ejpr.v10i4.2600
    [datePublished] => 2018-12-13
    [pdf] => https://www.philosophy-of-religion.eu/menuscript/index.php/ejpr/article/view/2600/version/531/2201
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Is the Thomistic Doctrine of God as "Ipsum Esse Subsistens" Consistent?

Giovanni
Universität Luzern

DOI: https://doi.org/10.24204/ejpr.v10i4.2600

Abstract

The aims of my paper are (i) to set out Aquinas’s arguments in favour of the thesis of God as Subsistent Being itself; (ii) set out the arguments against; and (iii) propose a fresh reading of that thesis that takes into account both Thomistic doctrine and the criticisms of it. In this way, I shall proceed as in a medieval quaestio, with arguments in favour, sed contra and respondeo.

Keywords: Aquinas

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