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TOMÁS DE AQUINO E OS ATRIBUTOS DIVINOS

2011; UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE GOIÁS; Volume: 16; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5216/phi.v16i1.12422

1982-2928

Lúcio Souza Lobo,

Medieval Philosophy and Theology

This paper describes some of the key mechanisms used by Aquinas to deal with the divine attributes. Arising from the multiplicity and complexity of these attributes a number of problems which, in our view, are understood by Aquinas as likely to be settled only through a correct choice of the most appropriate philosophical instrument for each case. Univocal cause and equivocal cause, res significata and modus significandi, analogy, negative way and way of eminence, similarity, axiom of nowhere, among others, are presented in a sequence that we consider easier to understand. Finally, our purpose is mainly to introduce the reader to Aquinas’s modus of proceeding about this topic.