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Professor Holzer First cycle - Second year
2008-2009 2007-2008 2006-2007 2008-2009 2007-2008 2006-2007
Intensive Program
2008-2009 2007-2008 2006-2007

Ontology

  1. Introduction to Ontology and its relation to other sciences.
  2. The concept of being.
  3. The transcendental properties of being.
  4. Potency and Act.
  5. Essence and Existence.
  6. Substance and Accident.
  7. Subsistence.
  8. Relation.
  9. The reality of causality.
  10. The various types of causality: material, formal, efficient, final.
  11. Exemplary causality.
  12. Instrumental causality.
  13. God's causality in creatures.
  14. Possible being.
  15. The Metaphysics of Evolution.
  • H. J. KOREN, An Introduction to the Science of Metaphysics, Saint Louis, 1960.
  • W. NORRIS CLARKE, The One and the Many, Indiana, 2001.
  • J. OWENS, The Doctrine of Being in the Aristotelian Metaphysics, Toronto, 1978.
  • R. D. PHILLIPS, Modern Thomistic Philosophy, London, 1934.
  • F. VAN STEENBERGEN, Ontology, Louvain, 1970.

First semester: FE 1018: 5 ECTS credits.
Second semester: FE 2027: 5 ECTS credits.

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Last revised: 15.7.2008.

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