Open AccessEns as maxime primum in Thomas Aquinas
Author(s) -
Predrag Milidrag
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
theoria
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2406-081X
pISSN - 0351-2274
DOI - 10.2298/theo1702174m
Subject(s) - philosophy , transcendental number , metaphysics , intellect , epistemology , context (archaeology) , relation (database) , theology , paleontology , database , computer science , biology
Thomas Aquinas claims that ens is the first known by the intellect, and that it is not possible to conceive anything if it is not an ens. That firstnes of being is analyzed from its epistemological aspect (ens as primim cognitum) as well as from metaphysical one (ens as actus essendi). In that context, the notion of resolutio is considered and the relation of being and transcendental notion of thing (res).