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We will begin with the study of a text presented in the fifth article of the Quaestio de Spiritualibus Creaturis. 1 The question proposed is: ‘Is there some created spiritual substance which is not united to a body?’ The body of the article falls into three main divisions:
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1. The primi naturales philosophi who acknowledged only the existence of corporeal nature;
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2. The posteriores philosophi who arrived at a knowledge of incorporeal substances;
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3. We ourselves, ‘nos,’ the Christians, who likewise maintain the existence of spiritual being but for other reasons.
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Q.U. De Anima, 6, c.
Other examples are to be found in In Meta. [5] [20]; In I Meta., 3 [61–63].
In I Meta., 5 [C 97].
De Sp. Creat., 3, c. [K 40–41].
De Sub. Sep. [1]. Cf. De Sub. Sep., 7 [P 49].
In I Meta., 3 [61–63].
C.G. [10]
S.T., I, 118, 3, c.
S.T. [26]
S.T., I, 49, 3, c.
Contra Retra. a Rel. Ingr., 6.
Averroes: ‘Et est positio falsa… et hoc secundum radices eorum, quoniam ipsi dicunt (Dest. Dest., 14 [119B]);… haec positio est ex radicibus….’ (Ibid. [118C]).
In Sent. [20]; cf. Averroes: ‘Et hoc manifestum est ei qui considerat funda-mentum Aristotelis,’ De Sub. Orb., 1 [5vK].
In I De An., 6 [P 71].
In Meta. [32]; cf. In Eth. [21]; In Meta. [34]; In De An. [31]; In I De An., 6 [P 71].
De Sp. Creat., 3, c. [K 42–45].
De Sub. Sep. [1].
In Sent. [20].
E.g. S.T., I, 3, 8, c.
Fabro, La Nozione Metafisica di Partecipazione secondo S. Tomaso D’Aquino, pp. 58–59.
. S.T. [3].
See Chapter II.
S. T. [56].
S.T. [58].
C.G. [5].
. S.T. [3].
De Ver. [17].
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Henle, R.J. (1970). Saint Thomas’ Methodology in the Treatment of Positiones. In: Saint Thomas and Platonism. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-3167-7_2
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