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Metaphysical treatise

De ente et essentia

A short treatise on being, essence, existence, substance, accident, form, matter, and individuation.

Datierung

c. 1252-1256

Warum es wichtig ist

It is compact, but it supplies vocabulary needed for Aquinas's later arguments about creatures and God.

Wie man es liest

  1. 1Define essence, being, substance, accident, form, and matter before moving quickly.
  2. 2Watch how created composition points beyond itself.
  3. 3Read it beside the arguments from contingency and participation.