PHIL 766 Metaphysical Themes in Thomas Aquinas II
This course presupposes the completion of Metaphysical Themes in Thomas Aquinas, Part I, or its equivalent. This course will concentrate on Aquinas's view on the essential structure of finite being. Topics will include his views on the nature of substance and accident, the derivation of the predicaments, the relationship between the individual subject and the act of being (esse), the issue of a distinctive esse for accidents, the causal relation between substance and accidents, the relationship between the soul and its powers, the nature of prime matter and substantial form, unicity of substantial form and the problem of the individuation of material substances.