Being and Some Philosophers

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The study of being was once one of the vital main preoccupations of Etienne Gilson’s scholarly and intellectual life. Being and Some Philosophers is at once a testament to the persistence of those concerns and crucial landmark in the history of the question of being. The book charts the ways in which being is translated across history, from unity in Plato and substance in Aristotle to essence in Avicenna and the act of existence in Aquinas. It examines the vicissitudes of essence and existence in Suarez and Christian Wolff, in Hegel and Kierkegaard, in an effort to uncover the metaphysical and existential foundations of up to date thought. And yet Being and Some Philosophers remains not such a lot an historical investigation (even if it could only have been written by a scholar steeped in the history of philosophy) but, in the words of its creator, “a philosophical book, and a dogmatically philosophical one at that.” Its passionate vigour has proven, over many years, at once fresh and provocative. Indeed, the appendix to this revised edition accommodates critiques of the book by two Thomists in addition to Gilson’s replies to their objections.

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