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https://doi.org/10.34075/cs.54.1.1
The Significance of Bonaventure's Distinction Between Entis et Esse
Hrvoje Relja
; Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Splitu, Split, Hrvatska
Sažetak
This paper shows how St. Bonaventure, as all other Christian hilosophers, adopted the notion of existence in order to explain, on the ontological level, the property of being created that belongs to all creatures, since it is metaphysically realized that every creature, in so far as created, necessarily acquires its existence from the Creator. Consequently, that fact requires that, on the basic ontological level, the creature is metaphysically composed out of existence and a principle complementary to it, which is what the Seraphic Doctor formulates as the composition out of entis et esse. Although Bonaventure himself does not give a precise interpretation of the nature of the aforementioned composition out of entis et esse, it can be, as it is shown in the paper, deduced from his fundamental philosophical and theological theses, which presuppose a previously delineated basic ontological structure of being. Following that deduction, one can infer that Bonaventure's composition out of entis et esse cannot be interpreted in the perspective of the Thomistic metaphysics of existence, but that it should be understood in the light of an essentialist metaphysics, more precisely as the composition on the transcendental level out of two distinct principles: essence, that is, a
fully defined/determined/individual possible being, and existence, concrete being's act of existing.
Ključne riječi
entis et esse; St. Bonaventure; existence; essentialist metaphysics
Hrčak ID:
218215
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Datum izdavanja:
20.3.2019.
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