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Aquinas on the Divine Ideas as Exemplar Causes Paperback – October 17, 2014

by Gregory Doolan (Author)

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Gregory T. Doolan provides here the first detailed consideration of the divine ideas as causal principles. He examines Thomas Aquinas's philosophical doctrine of the divine ideas and convincingly argues that it is an essential element of his metaphysics. According to Thomas, the ideas in the mind of God are not only principles of his knowledge, but they are productive principles as well. In this role, God's ideas act as exemplars for things that he creates. As Doolan shows, this theory of exemplarism is an integral part of Thomas's account of the existence and order of the created universe. It also accounts in part for the freedom of God's creative act. The volume begins with an introduction to Thomas's doctrine of exemplarism and then addresses his arguments for the existence of exemplar ideas within the mind of God. Having established the existence of divine ideas, Doolan considers how Thomas reconciles their multiplicity with God's simplicity. The work identifies the various things for which Thomas posits divine ideas. As Doolan is careful to show, Thomas does not consider all of these ideas to be exemplars because not all of them act as causal principles. After identifying the ideas that do act in this way, Doolan considers how such exemplars can be causes of natural things without compromising the causality of natural agents. The volume culminates with a consideration of the role that the divine ideas play within the structure of Thomas's theory of participation. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Gregory T. Doolan, assistant professor of philosophy at The Catholic University of America, is a contributor to Wisdom's Apprentice: Thomistic Essays in Honor of Lawrence Dewan, O.P., and Reassessing the Liberal State: Reading Maritain's Man and the State. This is his first book.

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"[Doolan] canvasses Aquinas' works thoroughly, explicitly highlighting ideas as exemplar causes, their very existence and their multiplicity, before identifying exemplar ideas, along with the causality proper to them, to finally broach the ways Aquinas uses divine ideas to elucidate his critical strategy of participation. Daunting metaphysical issues all, and those who are drawn to explore them will find a virtual roadmap for Aquinas' treatment in this well-composed study. . . . [A] first step to any student attempting to negotiate these metaphysical shoals." -- David Burrell, C.S.C., Nova et Vetera

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"An outstanding doctrinal study of Thomas's teaching on exemplary forms. Gregory Doolan argues convincingly that the doctrine of divine exemplarism occupies an essential place in Thomas's metaphysical thought. Doolan has a very good mastery of Thomas's thought; he is familiar with all the relevant literature and takes stand in several interesting debates concerning the subject of his study."--R. A. te Velde, University of Tilburg --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: The Catholic University of America Press; Reprint edition (October 17, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 081322716X
ISBN-13: 978-0813227160
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.7 x 8.5 inches
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Average Customer Review: 4 customer reviews
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paul

beautiful

April 6, 2013

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The best thing about the book is the clear, precise, simple prose. If you have read any philosophy you will know what I mean. As an artist the content is very important to me. This book describes a nearly lost world where artworks have meaning in relation to artists ideas. and all of creation is a reflection of God's causal purposes. Well thought and then well written. A good example of exemplarism. The price? It is a great book.

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A. P. Davison

A model of scholarship

January 21, 2017

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I could hardy put this book down. I thought it was terrific.

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R. R.

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very interesting

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Nick

Very good but expensive.

September 27, 2008

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If you want to know how one can combine both Aristotle's hylomorphism and Plato's ideas at the same time, this book will explain Thomas Aquinas's incredible solution to the problem.

There are lots of interesting aspects about Thomas's theory of divine ideas in this book. For example, every individual has a divine idea corresponding to his essence and every individual perfectly imitates that divine idea. So for instance, there is a divine idea of Socrates and Socrates cannot be any more or less like the divine idea of Socrates, for then Socrates would be more or less like Socrates. Thus each person has an "ontological dignity," since we are exactly the way God intended us to be. We are of course a deficient likeness of God's nature, but not of his divine idea of us.

Doolan also makes a persuasive and defensible argument that Thomas's doctrine of divine ideas is philosophical and not theological. I suspect this will be a controversial point for many readers.

Another interesting and important aspect of this book is Doolan's claim that a being never participates in its divine idea. Manny scholars seem to have assumed that beings do in fact participate in their divine ideas, but Doolan has very persuasively argued that they don't.

This is a well written and well researched book. I found it fascinating. I had no idea how Platonic, in a sense, Thomas truly was.

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