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1.6 - Participation: Aquinas and His Neoplatonic Sources
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 January 2021
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This essay treats of the (Neo)platonic influences in the thought of Thomas Aquinas, in particular the notion of participation. It describes Aquinas’ doctrine of participation in being as developed from his principal Neoplatonic sources, to wit, Boethius’ De hebdomadibus, Dionysius’ De divinis nominibus, and the Liber de causis. It argues that the doctrine of creation in terms of participation the Christian conditions of creation.
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- Christian PlatonismA History, pp. 122 - 140Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020