‘Metaphysics of the Exodus’: Debating Platonic Versus Christian Traces in St Thomas’ Concept of Being

IF 0.5 3区哲学 0 PHILOSOPHY

Sophia Pub Date : 2024-02-15 DOI:10.1007/s11841-024-01006-0

Manuel Alejandro Serra Pérez

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Abstract

This paper critically analyzes the deconstructive tendency that some authors have shown against the so-called Metaphysics of Exodus, promoted by philosophers such as Étienne Gilson. The most original notion in Thomas Aquinas’s philosophy is that being (esse) is said to derive not from the Bible as Gilson claims, but from Neoplatonic sources of pagan ambience, such as the author of the De causis (Proclus) or the Dionysius Areopagite. We carry out an analysis of the status quaestionis by showing, contrary to the critics of the ‘Metaphysics of Exodus,’ that this deconstructive tendency is unfounded and untenable.

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出埃及记的形而上学"：辩论圣托马斯存在概念中的柏拉图痕迹与基督教痕迹

本文批判性地分析了一些作者对埃蒂安-吉尔松（Étienne Gilson）等哲学家倡导的所谓《出埃及记形而上学》（Metaphysics of Exodus）所表现出的解构倾向。托马斯-阿奎那哲学中最具独创性的概念是，存在（esse）并非像吉尔松所说的那样来自《圣经》，而是来自异教氛围的新柏拉图来源，如《因果论》的作者（普罗克洛斯）或狄奥尼修斯-阿雷奥帕吉特。与 "出埃及记形而上学 "的批评者相反，我们对 "quaestionis "进行了分析，表明这种解构倾向是毫无根据和站不住脚的。

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