Ebook: The One and the Many: a Contemporary Thomistic Metaphysics

Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; 1. What Is Metaphysics and Why Do It?; 2. The Discovery and Meaning of Being; 3. Special Characteristics of Our Idea of Being as Transcendental and Analogous; 4. Unity as Transcendental Property of Being; 5. Being as One and Many: Participation in Existence through Limiting Essence; 6. The One and the Many on the Same Level of Being: Form and Matter I; 7. The World of Change: Act and Potency; 8. Self-Identity in Change: Substance and Accident; 9. Essential or Substantial Change: Form and Matter II.