Civilizar (Jun 2009)
The Being and his Being in Thomas Aquinas
Abstract
Two prestigious philosophers, Enrico Berti and Anthony Kenny, assertthat Thomas Aquinas expresses relevant doctrinal incoherencies,especially in his ipsum esse subsistens doctrine.In the context of this discussion, the current article intends to review themost outstanding texts where Aquinas considers the being of God issue,and calls Him ipsum esse subsistens, as well for the passages in which hetalks about the being of God as his being (suum esse). The aforesaid, isaimed to establish if effectively is fair to identify the ipsum esse subsistenswith the idea of God considered as the separated being from Platonicinspiration.This analysis will allow us to precise to what extent is valid to affirm thatthe Aquinas’ philosophy is a negative philosophy and his metaphysicsis minimum metaphysics.
