Esse and Good in the Commentary on Pseudo-Dionysius's De Divinis Nominibus

Authors

  • Alain Contat Ateneo Pontificio Regina Apostolorum

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24215/26182858e079

Keywords:

being, esse, goog, Pseudo-Dionysius, Thomas Aquinas

Abstract

For more than a half century, the friends of St. Thomas Aquinas have been interested in the influence which the treatise On the divine names has had on metaphysics. Following this trail, we would like to tarry here on the reciprocal link between good and being (esse) in the commentary of the Angelic Doctor. We hope to have clearly shown the two lines of direction which command, on this point, the reception of Pseudo-Dionysius in the thought of Aquinas: a strong divergence, which leads the latter to reverse the Dionysian primacy of good over being; and a no less strong convergence, which leads to the notion of intensive esse, source of all the perfection of being.

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References

Contat, A: L’esse et le bien dans le commentaire sur le De divinis nominibus du Pseudo-Denys Aréopagite. «Revue thomiste», 120 (2020), p. 25-58.

Published

2021-07-09

How to Cite

Contat, A. (2021). Esse and Good in the Commentary on Pseudo-Dionysius’s De Divinis Nominibus. Dios Y El Hombre, 5(1), 079. https://doi.org/10.24215/26182858e079

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