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One important task of metaphysics is to answer the question of what it is for an object to exist. The first part of this book offers a systematic reconstruction and critique of contemporary views on existence. The upshot of this part is that the contemporary debate has reached an impasse because none of the considered views is able to formulate a satisfactory answer to this fundamental metaphysical question. The second part reconstructs Thomas Aquinas’s view on existence (__esse__) and argues that it contributes a new perspective which allows us to see why the contemporary debate has reached this impasse. It has come to this point because it has taken a premise for granted which Aquinas’s view rejects, namely, that the existence of an object consists in something’s having a property. A decisive contribution of Aquinas’s theory of __esse__ is that it makes use of the ideas of metaphysical participation and composition. In this way, it can be explained how an object can have __esse__ without being the case that __esse__ is a property of it. This book brings together a reconstruction from the history of philosophy with a systematic study on existence and is therefore relevant for scho

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Author

Patrick Zoll

Publisher

Saur, K. G., Verlag. ein Imprint der Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9783110979879

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Philosophy, History