Materie a nemateriální substance podle Bonaventury a Tomáše Akvinského

• Authors: Tomáš Machula

Title variants

EN

Matter and immaterial substance according to Bonaventura and Thomas Aquinas

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The article is concerned with Bonaventura’s conception of first matter in the context of immaterial substances. Bonaventura’s conception of matter is different to that of Aristotle or Thomas Aquinas, who rejected matter in immaterial substances. Bonaventura, in contrast to Thomas, accepts the Aristotelian terminology in a fairly loose way, interpreting matter as potential, or, more precisely, as the created. With this conception the assertion of matter in the context of immaterial beings is not so absurd as it may at first sight seem. The article analyses Bonaventura’s understanding of angels and man, and it compares him with Thomas Aquinas and his use of Aristotelian terminology.

Keywords

EN

first matter; Bonaventura; Thomas Aquinas

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Filosofický časopis (Philosophical Journal)
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 57
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 209-220
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Tomáš Machula

• Filosofický časopis, redakce, Filosofický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., Jilská 1, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic