Contents
- [Preface.]
- [General Introduction.]
- [Chapter I. Being And Its Primary Determinations.]
- [Chapter II. Becoming And Its Implications.]
- [Chapter III. Existence And Essence.]
- [Chapter IV. Reality As One And Manifold.]
- [Chapter V. Reality And The True.]
- [Chapter VI. Reality And The Good.]
- [Chapter VII. Reality And The Beautiful.]
- [Chapter VIII. The Categories Of Being. Substance And Accident.]
- [Chapter IX. Nature And Person.]
- [Chapter X. Some Accident-Modes Of Being: Quality.]
- [Chapter XI. Quantity, Space And Time.]
- [Chapter XII. Relation; The Relative And The Absolute.]
- [Chapter XIII. Causality; Classification Of Causes.]
- [Chapter XIV. Efficient Causality; Phenomenism And Occasionalism.]
- [Chapter XV. Final Causes; Universal Order.]
- [Index.]
- [Footnotes]
To
The Students
Past And Present
Of
Maynooth College
Preface.
It is hoped that the present volume will supply a want that is really felt by students of philosophy in our universities—the want of an English text-book on General Metaphysics from the Scholastic standpoint. It is the author's intention to supplement his Science of Logic[1] and the present treatise on Ontology, by a volume on the Theory of Knowledge. Hence no disquisitions on the latter subject will be found in these pages: the Moderate Realism of Aristotle and the Schoolmen is assumed throughout.