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Transubstantiation and the Real Distinction Between Essence and Existence? The Concerns of Benet Perera SJ (1536–1610)In Gyula Klima (ed.), The Metaphysics and Theology of the Eucharist: A Historical-Analytical Survey of the Problems of the Sacrament, Springer Verlag. pp. 383-392. 2023.In his work De communibus omnium rerum naturalium principijs et affectionibus Benet Perera deals with the “magna disceptatio” on the distinction in every creature between essence and existence.Perera does not share the theory of the Thomists, who were defending the real distinction between essence and existence. Furthermore, he questions the relationship between Thomists’ and Aquinas’ position about the distinctio realis on the basis of the affinity of their position with that of Avicenna, expre…Read more
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Transcendentals Explained Through Syncategoremata: Is Being as Truth a Transcendental According to Thomas Aquinas?In Joshua P. Hochschild, Turner C. Nevitt, Adam Wood & Gábor Borbély (eds.), Metaphysics Through Semantics: The Philosophical Recovery of the Medieval Mind / Essays in Honor of Gyula Klima, Springer Verlag. pp. 173-184. 2023.Being as truth has a greater extension and universality than being as an act of being in Aquinas’s metaphysics, because it also includes privations and negations. In order to better understand this aspect, it is necessary to examine the role played by logic and, in particular, by the syncategoremata “est” and “non” in the definition of being as truth. This analysis leads to the discovery that being as truth is expressed in terms of an est as a passio enuntiationis and corresponds to the affirmat…Read more
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12La riabilitazione metafisica dell’essere come vero: Tommaso dopo FregeQuaestio 22 189-206. 2023.Unlike being as act of being, being as true does not seem to belong to the object of metaphysics but only to that of logic. However, according to Aquinas it has a greater extension and universality than the act of being (and it is well konwn that universality is a characteristic of the object of metaphysics). For whereas being as act of being is a passio entis, namely a property of things, being as true is, according to Aquinas (and Frege), a passio enuntiationis, that is a property of propositi…Read more
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Problemi di identità maschileTeoria 26 (1): 153-174. 2006.In the last years many associations and movements in defense of men’s rights and men’s culture are rising in the world. This paper aims to analyse the causes of this phenomenon and the theories which lie beneath it. But a real analysis of these theories could not be developed without studying the influence of new technologies in the relationship between genders. For the paper includes a discussion of the concept of “cyborg” in relation with gender’s problems
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The thomist treatise on the transcendental property of being+ Aquinas, thomas'quaestio disputata de veritate'Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica 87 (1): 51-82. 1995.
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101.2. «To be» o «esse»? La questione dell’essere nel tomismo analiticoRivista di Estetica 49 23-54. 2012.An overview of current scholarship in ontology places one before two parallel lines that never meet: on the one hand there are essays in so-called “analytic ontology”, on the other hand, there are studies developed within so-called Aristotelian-Thomistic ontology. However, even though it is frequently ignored, there is an interesting philosophical current of thought within so-called “analytical Thomism”, which joins contemporary debates of “analytic ontology” from the perspective of an Aristotel…Read more
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Il posto di Sofia Vanni Rovighi nel panorama delle interpretazioni dell’ontologia tomistaRivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica 4. 2008.
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Quali sarebbero le novita della dottrina tomista dei trascendentali? Osservazioni sullo studio di Jan A. AertsenRivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica 89 (2-3): 407-427. 1997.
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4I trascendentali tommasiani ens, unum, multiplicitas nel cosiddetto “tomismo analitico”Alpha Omega 17 (2): 289-321. 2014.In this article, I show how “Analytic Thomism” has developed some reflections on the Thomistic transcendentals ens, unum and multiplicitas, in critical dialogue with some contemporary analytic philosophers. The article is divided into three main parts: in the first, I refer briefly to the thought of Thomas Aquinas on the transcendentals ens, unum and multiplicitas and also clarify what “Analytic Thomism” is; in the second, I present the dominant position within contemporary analytic philosophy o…Read more
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Le relazioni divine secondo S. Tommaso d'Aquino. Riproposizione di un problema e prospettive di indagineRivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica 82 (2-3): 287-299. 1990.
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Divine-relations, according to Aquinas, Thomas-reproposal of a problem and research-possibilitiesRivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica 82 (2-3): 287-299. 1990.
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994Is the Thomistic Doctrine of God as "Ipsum Esse Subsistens" Consistent?European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 10 (4): 161-191. 2018.The aims of my paper are to set out Aquinas’s arguments in favour of the thesis of God as Subsistent Being itself; set out the arguments against; and propose a fresh reading of that thesis that takes into account both Thomistic doctrine and the criticisms of it. In this way, I shall proceed as in a medieval quaestio, with arguments in favour, sed contra and respondeo.
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La relazione trascendentale nella neoscolasticaRivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica 81 (3): 416-465. 1989.
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Il trattato tomista sulle proprieta trascendentali dell'essereRivista di Filosofia 87 (1): 51-82. 1995.
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28The article analyses in detail, for the first time amongst the philosophical literature on Pererius, the “magna disceptatio” on the distinction, in every creature, between essence and existence as it arises in his work De communibus omnium rerum naturalium principijs et affectionibus. The Jesuit philosopher criticizes the opinion of the Thomists, whom were defending the distinctio realis between essence and existence. His reasoning strategy presents seven arguments against the distinctio realis …Read more
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47Aquinas on Being: One, Two or Three Senses of Being?Quaestio 18 509-538. 2018.In this article I point out that rather than two, as is commonly thought, or indeed one, which is an old idea recently revived by some scholars, Aquinas in fact presents three main senses of being: (A1) being as actus essendi or esse or ‘present actuality’; (A2) being as (real) form or essence; (B) being as the reply to the an sit? (is there…?) question or anitas or ‘there is’ sense. Regarding the relations among these three senses of being I show that: (i) the same logical treatment holds for t…Read more