ACTUS ESSENDI

An Electronic Journal on Aquinas's Doctrine of the Act of Being

Editor: Orestes J. González
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In Non-Blog Format

  • The Human Intellect’s Apprehension of the actus essendi
  • The Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas
  • Actus essendi and the Habit of the First Principle in Thomas Aquinas

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  • God’s Existence versus God’s actus essendi
  • The Metaphysical Principles of ‘Essence’ and ‘Act of Being’
  • Actus essendi and Participation
  • The habitus principiorum Revisited
  • Science, actus essendi, and Revealed Truth
  • Actus essendi and Existence
  • The Thirteen Passages That Explicitly Use the Expression actus essendi
  • Biography of Thomas Aquinas
  • Saint Thomas's Aristotle and actus essendi
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Monday, December 5, 1994


The Apprehension of the Act of
Being in Aquinas

Entry 0011: Article in PDF format

Orestes J. Gonzalez, “The Apprehension of the Act of Being in Aquinas,” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 68 (1994): 475-500.
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List of Entries on actus essendi Published in 2015-2020

  • 0600: The Thirteen Passages That Explicitly Use the Expression actus essendi
  • 0599: My Own Commentary on
    actus essendi – Text no. 13
  • 0402: Commentary on
    actus essendi – Text no. 13
    Quotes from C. Fabro
  • 0401: Commentary on
    actus essendi – Text no. 13
    Quotes from R. McInerny
  • 0400: Commentary on
    actus essendi – Text no. 13
    Quotes from J. A. Aertsen (2)
  • 0399: Commentary on
    actus essendi – Text no. 13
    Quotes from J. A. Aertsen (1)
  • 0398: Commentary on
    actus essendi – Text no. 13
    Quotes from R. A. te Velde
  • 0397: Commentary on
    actus essendi – Text no. 13
    Quotes from J. F. Wippel
  • 0396: Commentary on
    actus essendi – Text no. 12
  • 0394: Commentary on
    actus essendi – Text no. 11
  • 0393: Commentary on
    actus essendi – Text no. 10
  • 0395: Commentary on
    actus essendi – Text no. 9
  • 0392: Commentary on
    actus essendi – Text no. 8
  • 0391: Commentary on
    actus essendi – Text no. 7
  • 0390: Commentary on
    actus essendi – Text no. 6
  • 0389: Commentary on
    actus essendi – Text no. 5
  • 0388: Commentary on
    actus essendi – Text no. 4
  • 0387: Commentary on
    actus essendi – Text no. 3

List of Entries on actus essendi Published in 2014

  • 0386: Commentary on
    actus essendi – Text no. 2
  • 0385: Commentary on
    actus essendi – Text no. 1
  • 0380: On the Claim That Aristotle
    accipit esse pro quidditate
  • 0373: Is the Proposition “God exists” a Self-Evident Proposition?
  • 0371: Dating of the Texts in which Aquinas Uses the Expression
    actus essendi — Text no. 13
  • 0370: Dating of the Texts in which Aquinas Uses the Expression
    actus essendi — Text no. 12
  • 0369: Dating of the Texts in which Aquinas Uses the Expression
    actus essendi — Text no. 11
  • 0368: Dating of the Texts in which Aquinas Uses the Expression
    actus essendi — Text no. 10
  • 0367: Dating of the Texts in which Aquinas Uses the Expression
    actus essendi — Text no. 9
  • 0366: Dating of the Texts in which Aquinas Uses the Expression actus essendi — Texts nos. 5,6,7,&8 (2)
  • 0365: Dating of the Texts in which Aquinas Uses the Expression actus essendi — Texts nos. 5,6,7,&8 (1)
  • 0364: Dating of the Texts in which Aquinas Uses the Expression actus essendi — Texts nos. 1, 2, 3, & 4

List of Entries on actus essendi 2011-2013

  • 0266: Benedict XVI on
    Logos as Verbum and Ars
  • 0253: Benedict XVI on
    How Faith Affects Reason
  • 0252: Benedict XVI on
    God as Esse subsistens
  • 0251: God’s Existence versus
    God’s actus essendi
  • 0237: Aquinas on Saint Anselm
  • 0232: Existence and Its
    Self-Evidence
  • 0227: Benedict XVI on Universality
  • 0222: Origin of the Five Ways
  • 0220: David Bradshaw on Neoplatonic Sources
    of the actus essendi
  • 0214: Actus essendi and Participation
  • 0197: Beauty and God's Existence
  • 0193: Rudi A. te Velde
    on Existence
  • 0192: Antonio Millan Puelles
    on Existence

List of Entries on actus essendi 1994-2010

  • 0141: John Henry Newman on Aquinas's Catena Aurea
  • 0118: Diagram of a Timeless God Holding an Eternal World
  • 0133: Benedict XVI's Audience on Thomas Aquinas (III)
  • 0131: Benedict XVI's Audience on Thomas Aquinas (II)
  • 0125: Benedict XVI's Audience on Thomas Aquinas (I)
  • 0117: Benedict XVI's Audience on Albert the Great
  • 0116: Benedict XVI's Audiences on Saint Bonaventure
  • 0085: Commentary on In De
    hebdomadibus
    , lectio 2
  • 0084: The Metaphysical Principles of ‘Essence’ and ‘Act of Being’
  • 0083:Pope John Paul II on
    Jacques Maritain
  • 0113: Where to Find the Original
    Text and Translations of
    The Angelicum Address
  • 0082: The Angelicum Address
  • 0049: Review of “The Apprehension of the Act of Being
    in Aquinas”
  • 0053: Commentary on
    De veritate, 10, 8, ad 13
  • 0051: Commentary on
    De veritate, 1, 1, ad s. c. 3
  • 0046: Commentary on
    De veritate, 1, 1, c.
  • 0032: Latin Grammar for the Signfications of ens and esse
  • 0099: Jacques Maritain on the
    Philosophy of Being
  • 0097: Ambrose McNicholl on the
    Philosophy of Being
    in Fides et ratio
  • 0094: Ralph McInerny on the
    Philosophy of Being
    in Fides et ratio
  • 0092: Stephen Pimentel on the
    Philosophy of Being
    in Fides et ratio
  • 0091: Martin Bieler on the
    Philosophy of Being
    in Fides et ratio
  • 0027: John Paul II on the Philosophy of Being
  • 0030: Actus essendi and
    Existence
  • 0108: Benedict XVI on Aquinas (V)
  • 0043: Benedict XVI on Aquinas (IV)
  • 0039: Benedict XVI on Aquinas (III)
  • 0031: Benedict XVI on Aquinas (II)
  • 0026: Benedict XVI on Aquinas (I)
  • 0041: On The Tenth Anniversary of Fides et ratio (II)
  • 0025: On the Tenth Anniversary of Fides et ratio (I)
  • 0015: The intellectus principiorum
  • 0012: Immediate Intellection and Reasoning
  • 0011: The Apprehension of the Act of Being in Aquinas

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