Jacques Maritain Center :
General Metaphysics /
by John Rickaby, S.J.
INDEX
- ABSOLUTE, finite and infinite 195 n.;
meaning of 361.
- ACCIDENTS in relation to essences 74;
inhering in matter 245;
definition of St. Thomas 247;
existing in alio 253;
absolute 254;
existing without substance 257;
in the Blessed Sacrament 263;
absolute and relative 267;
modal 267.
- ACTION and passion 305;
Suarez' distinction 306.
- ACTIVITIES and possibilities 173;
and substance 264.
- ACTIVITY, certainties of 320;
additional proof of 323;
likeness of to agent 330;
and passivity 338.
- ACTUALITY of Being 32;
its notes 34;
Hume's error concerning 167;
the source of Possibility 170;
God the first 170, 173;
in past and future 378.
- ANALOGOUSNESS of Being 38,
safe propositions concerning 45.
- ANALOGY, explanation of 39;
intrinsic and extrinsic attribution 46.
- APPETITE, definition of 125 n.;
elicitus and naturalis 129.
- APPREHENSION, simple, error
regarding 74, 75;
St. Thomas' definition 75.
- ART, how related to sense and
intellect 155;
imitation and symbolism in 162.
- ATTRIBUTION intrinsic and extrinsic 46.
- BEAUTIFUL, how identical with the good and true 148;
nature of 148;
theory of St. Thomas 149;
universal character of 150;
definition discussed 152;
vagueness of the word 155;
not average type 162.
- BEING, false ideas concerning 6;
M'Cosh on 11;
errors concerning 12;
confusion respecting 15 et seq.;
etymologically discussed 18;
the object of a cult 19;
what it is 20;
actual and possible 24;
scholastic definitions of 26;
a convention regarding 30;
reality of 32;
possible 33;
actual 33;
singleness of 34;
the highest genus 35;
relation to Substance or Spirit or Matter 37;
analogousness of 39, 43;
Suarez on gradations in 44;
per se and by participation 46;
principles flowing from notion of 46;
opposed to non-entity 51;
ancient teaching concerning 52;
doctrine of the Fathers 55;
generalized essence 61;
attributes of 93 et seq.;
unity of 94;
truth of 109;
in relation to intellect 116;
and untruth 119;
goodness of 121;
how more fundamental than good 124;
intelligent and non-intelligent 126;
not every one equally good 133;
and consciousness 146;
degrees of beauty in 151;
Hegelian properties of 156;
possibilities of 166;
necessary and contingent 184, 185;
finite and infinite 190;
in Substance and Accident 225;
entia, entia entium 253.
- BLESSED SACRAMENT, Substance and accident 247, 254, 257, 263, 268.
- BODY in the person 289;
integrity not personality 290.
- CAUSE vid efficient causality;
Hegelian ideas on 222;
definition of 299;
Aristotelic 300;
material and formal 300;
constituent and efficient 301;
final 302, 304;
exemplary 304.
- CERTAINTIES proving efficient causality 320.
- CHANGE denied and accounted for 315, 316;
sufficient reason for 319;
a measure of change 376.
- CHRIST, personality of 283, 290, 294, 297.
- CIRCUMSTANCE and Causality 334.
- COMPREHENSIONS, distinct 100.
- CONDITION and Cause 339.
- CONDITIONED, Hamilton's principle of 194;
law of applied to Substance 244.
- CONSCIOUSNESS and pain 144;
and Being 146;
Hume's vivid and faint states 232, 235.
- CONTINGENCY opposed to necessity 185.
- CONTRADICTION, principle of 46.
- COSMOLOGY, its scope 69.
- COUNTERFEITS, ontological truth of 121.
- DIALECTIC, its office 54.
- DISTINCTION, virtual 104;
defined 104;
real 104;
mental 105;
in the beautiful 151.
- DIVISION the opposite of unity 94;
a note of predicamental unity 97.
- DURATION defined 372;
ideally considered 376.
- EFFECT vid Efficient Causality.
- EFFICIENT CAUSALITY defined 304;
and possibility 305;
opponents of 307;
occasionalism 308;
denial of 313;
defended 315;
proved 319;
in created agents 319;
current phrases explained 327, 330, 334, 336, 339.
- EGO, Mill's idea of 241.
- ENS essentiae et existentiae 21;
vid Being.
- ERROR supervening upon limitations of the intellect 137.
- ESSENCE, definition of 27;
Father Palmieri's opinion 30;
and principle of Excluded Middle 48;
what it is 59;
what gives it 61;
objections to scholastic
doctrine 62;
nominal 63;
and mathematics 67;
and natural objects 69;
foundation of scepticism regarding 73;
imperfect knowledge of 74;
concrete and generalized 75;
material 76;
knowledge of possible 78;
how inferred 80;
knowledge of proved 82;
divisions of 83;
and existence in created objects 84;
outlines of the controversy 84;
and nature 88;
never in itself bad 132;
how eternal, necessary, and immutable 185;
Locke's ideas on 230.
- ETERNITY in terms of time 214.
- EVIL in Being 128;
formality of 134;
a privation 135;
In simple and compound substances 135;
relativo-absolute 136;
how brought about 137;
examples of 137;
moral 143.
- EXCLUDED MIDDLE, principle of 48.
- EXISTENCE, Mill's vagueness concerning 14;
Kant's opinion i6 n., 17;
its real relation to Being 21;
its relation to Essence 27;
Father Palmieri's opinion 30;
principles flowing from 48;
and Essence 84;
outlines of the controversy 84;
per se 251, 254;
a se 252.
- EXTENSION how known 364;
Reid's mystery of 365;
defined 366.
- FAILURES in execution, cause of 118.
- FALSEHOOD, distinctions iii 112.
- FEELING, pain of 145;
a character of conscious action 147.
- FINITE, what it is 190;
Hamilton's addition of 195;
notion of, prior to that of infinite 204.
- FORCE, mystery of 324.
- FORM, scholastic doctrine on 78;
and spirit 81;
substantial determining Being 95;
the note of species 98.
- FORMALITIES, explanation of 107.
- FREEDOM, errors concerning idea of 183;
what it consists in 303.
- GENUS of Being 35, 38.
- GOD, perfection of Being 41;
analogy applied to 45;
teaching of revelation concerning 51;
identity of Essence and Existence in 84;
St. Anselm's argument of Existence of 92;
the Truth 113;
and identity of thought and thing 115;
in relation to Truth 118;
ideas of not falsified by nature 118;
and the existence of evil 136;
a pure actuality 170;
power of 170;
Descartes' error respecting essential truth of 176;
"not possible" 179;
necessary Being 184;
infinite 191;
His relation to creatures 197;
cannot create another God 207, 211;
not ranked under the categories 225;
existing per se 251;
a substance with no accidents 254;
personality of 282;
not self-caused 300;
the cause of activities 307, 321;
and time 381.
- GOODNESS of Being 121;
opinions on 122;
etymologically considered 122 n.;
how synonymous with Being 124;
how appetible 125;
distinctions of 126;
perfecting the appetible 130;
absolute and relative 131;
every being not equally good 133;
difficulty of finding standard of 142;
how identical with beautiful 148;
priority of 160.
- GRADATION in Being 44.
- HARMONY and beauty 154.
- HYPOSTASIS, defined 280.
a substance 281.
- IDEALISM, case against, stated 116.
- IDEAS, prototypic 118.
- IDENTITY, principle of 46;
relation of to similarity 102;
moral 103;
of thought and thing 115;
Locke's theory 285;
of man, Hume's theory 291.
- IMPOSSIBLE, errors concerning 167;
irrational 171;
morally 188.
- INCONCEIVABILITY of the Infinite 193, 199.
- INDEFINITE signs of essences 89;
and infinite 200.
- INDIVIDUALITY, what it is 98;
errors concerning 99;
identical with concrete nature 101;
theories respecting 158.
- INFINITE in Being 44;
what it is 191;
pagan ideas of 192;
Hamilton's idea 193;
Catholic teaching 198;
not indefinite 200;
innate ideas theory 201;
difficulty respecting 204;
number not possible 205;
in possibilities 206;
mathematically considered 210.
- INFINITY, misconception of term 189.
- INTELLECT capable of knowing essences 60;
of God 118;
in art 155.
- INTELLIGENCE, impersonal and personal 290.
- INTENTIONS, first and second 32;
(first and second) in metaphysical constituents of essences 83.
- KINDS, real and unreal 89.
- KNOWLEDGE, Mill's opinion on 66;
human, accidental 16.
- LOGIC, in relation to Metaphysics 4;
Hegel's idea 9;
principles of contradiction, &c. 48.
- LUSTRE, in the beautiful 151.
- MATHEMATICAL UNITY defined 97.
- MATHEMATICS and Metaphysics 4;
and essential definitions 67.
- MANIFESTATION not unreal 34.
- MATTER AND FORM, bearing on essences 77;
scholastic theory of 86.
- MATTER described by non-cholastics 77;
by scholastics 78;
scholatic theory of 86;
Mill's theory of 87;
materia signata 101;
nature of its perfection 128;
Descartes' theory 308.
- MEASURE, Hegelian view of 156.
- METAPHYSICS, subject-matter of 1;
reality of 3, 5;
general as distinct from special 3;
principal terms of 7.
- MIND, Home's idea 235;
Mill's idea 239;
- MODALS in Logic 179 n., 180;
- MORALS in relation to Metaphysics 4;
- MOTION, Hobbes' query 307;
Descartes' theory 308;
potency of 380;
- NATURAL distinguished from artificial 61;
- NATURE of thiogs 76;
how synonymous with essence 88;
Mill's theory 89:
- NECESSITV, absolute and hypothetical 181;
necessary and consequent 184;
- NOTHING, Hartmann's theory 169.
- NUMBER, definition of 97;
infinite not possible 205.
- NUMBERS, explanation of 212;
- NUMERALS in relation to Metaphysics 2.
- OCCASION, definition of 340.
- OCCASIONALISM, doctrine of 308;
illustrations of 308-313.
- ONTOLOGISTS' doctrine on the Infinite 203.
- ONTOLOGY, definition of 4;
the subject-matter of 21;
limits of doctrine on truth 114;
generality of 150.
- ORDER of principles and conclusions 298.
- ORGANISM and Being 19.
- OTHERNESS of effect from cause 299.
- PAIN, how an evil 144;
a conscious state 145;
of feeling 146;
cannot be analyzed 147.
- PERCEPTIONS, Hume's theory 232, 253, 291.
- PERFECT, etymologically considered 129.
- PERFECTION of Being 126;
degrees of to be recognized 133.
- PERMANENCE the essence of substance - theories 259, 274, 275;
of effects 337.
- PERSONALITY of substance 279;
defined 281;
of God 282;
of Christ 283;
Locke's error 283 et seq.;
Hume 291;
other opinions 294;
in character of sin 297.
- PHYSICS in relation to Metaphysics 2, 4, 5.
- PLACE, Aristotle's definition 367 et seq.
- PLURALITY of causes 334.
- POSSIBlE, Hume's error concerning 167;
precedes the actual 169;
always rational 171;
and probable 173.
- POSSIBILITIES of Being 166;
of sensation 169;
nature of explained 170;
determined by the Divine intellect 170;
intrinsic and extrinsic 171;
incompossibilia 172;
the "whence" and "what" of 174;
Descartes' error on 176;
Ockam's error on 178;
ancient theories respecting 186;
their number 206;
in God's ssight 208;
incoherency of sum of 209;
sum of 211 et seq.;
and efficient causality 305.
- PRINCIPLE, definition of 298;
priority of nature 299.
- PRINCIPLES, the Three 46;
accommodated to notion of Being 48:
- PRIVATION, the essence of evil 137.
- PROBABILITY and possibility 173.
- PROPORTION, numerical 98.
- PROPOSITIONS, universal categorical 35.
- PSYCHOLOGY, its scope 69.
- QUALITY, Hegelian view of 156.
- QUANTITY, Hegelian View of 156.
- QUIDDITY, vid essence.
- REALITY, realitates v. res. 99;
substantial and modal 105;
Mr. Green's opinion on 111;
Hegelian idea of 123;
of intrinsic possibility 178;
of states of consciousness 246;
of Being affirmed 259.
- RELATION, Hegelian ideas on 222;
what it iS 352;
empirical ideas on 353;
Kant and Hegel 357;
superstition connected with 357;
real 358;
mental 359;
predicamental and transcendental 360.
- SCHOLASTICISM, errors regarding 88.
- SCIENCE, Mill's admissions respecting 70;
not obtained by intuition 74.
- SCOTISTS against Suarez on Being 42, 44.
- SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS and personality 295.
- SENSATION, Mill's permanent possibility of 239.
- SENSES in art 155.
- SIMILARITY, relation of, to identity 102.
- SIN, personal character of 297.
- SOUL, on the substance of 255;
unchangeable in substance 289;
activity of, Descartes' theory 309.
- SPACE, what it is 352;
empirical ideas on 353;
Kant and Hegel 357;
discussed 364;
real and ideal 367, 369;
errors concerning 370.
- SPIRIT, what it is 81.
- SPLENDOUR necessary to beauty 151.
- SUBSTANCE compared with Being 38;
Hegelian ideas on 222;
Descartes' idea of 225;
errors concerning 225 et seq.;
Locke on 225;
Hume on 232;
Mill 238;
Bain 242;
true theory regarding 245;
definition of St. Thomas 247;
Tongiorgi 248;
etymologically considered 254;
of the soul 255;
not a substratum 257;
permanence of 259;
removal of attributes of 262;
dynamic aspect of 264;
Kant's idea of 264;
further opinions on 270 et seq.;
personality of 279.
- SUMMATION of possibles 211, 217.
- SUPPOSITION, object of names 106.
- SUPPOSITUM, vid Hypostasis.
- SYMBOLISM in art 163.
- THING as distinct from being 17;
in relation to being 21;
etymologically considered 25;
a note of Being 32;
and person 93;
and reality 99;
and thought 115.
- THOUGHT as distinguished from its object 32.
- TIME, what it is 352;
empirical ideas on 353;
Kant and Hegel 357;
St. Augustine's definitlon 371;
continuous succession 372;
and space 375;
part of 379.
- TRANSCENDENTAL, definition of 24;
unity 97.
- TRUTH of Being 109;
Hegelian difficulty 110;
proof of 111;
benefits of scholastic doctrine 113;
a reality 116;
definition of Heraclitus 117;
departures from 119;
how referred to intellect and will 125;
of Being elucidated 171.
- UBICATION, vid space and place.
- UGLINESS, how explained 151.
- UNIQUENESS, not unity 102.
- UNITY of Being 94;
perfect 94;
of composition 95;
transcendental 97;
specific and individual 98;
essential v. individual 99;
physical, mental, moral 101;
and the beautiful 149.
- UNIVERSAL IDEAS, referring mostly to accidents 75.
- UNIVOCAL, explanation of 39.
- UNKNOWABLE, derivation of Spencer's idea of 199.
- UNREAL, the 33.
- UNTRUTH, due to relationships of Beings 119.
- VARIETY and unity discussed 151.
LIST OF AUTHORS REFERRED TO.
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