Matiere et mediations metaphysiques

Etude des fonctions systematiques de la matiere au sein de la pensee philosophique de Saint Thomas d'Aquin

by J. Lambinet

Book cover: Matiere et mediations metaphysiques

Extent: 945 pages

Publisher: Peeters Publishers

Subjects: Medieval Studies, Philosophy

Series: Philosophes Médiévaux

Series volume number: 66

Language: French

Paperback (Published)

(July 2020)

ISBN: 9789042936263

Price: $194.00

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(July 2020)

ISBN: 9789042940871

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It is undeniable that Thomas Aquinas showed great metaphysical originality among his contemporaries. However, his advances concerning the meaning of the uniqueness of the substantial form cannot be adequately grasped independently of an equally original understanding of matter, conceived in particular as pure power. This study attempts to grasp the implications of the Thomasian conception of matter in the various fields of his thought, from physics to metaphysics, in the very constitution of substance, the theories of knowledge and moral action, and the apprehension of the beautiful. It discovers there a conception of the substance-subject that reveals itself, at the very heart of its constitutive principles, as radically open to the originality of alterity in its various forms.


Il est indeniable que Thomas d’Aquin fit preuve d’une grande originalite metaphysique parmi ses contemporains. Or, ses avancees concernant la signification de l’esse ou l’unicite de la forme substantielle ne peuvent etre adequatement saisies independamment d’une comprehension tout aussi originale de la matiere, concue notamment comme pure puissance. Cette etude tyche de saisir les implications de la conception thomasienne de la matiere dans les differents domaines de sa pensee, de la physique a la metaphysique, en passant par les fondations, dans la constitution meme de la substance, des theories de la connaissance, de l’agir moral et de l’apprehension du beau. On y decouvre une conception de la substance-sujet au sens fort qui se montre pourtant, au coeur meme de ses principes constitutifs, radicalement ouverte a l’originalite de l’Alterite sous ses diverses formes.

  • By (author) J Lambinet