LIST OF FIGURES ........................................... v
Chapter
I. INTRODUCTION: THOMAS AQUINAS, PSEUDO-DIONYSIUS,
AND NEOPLATONISM.............................. 1
II. WESTERN INTERPRETERS OF ON THE DIVINE NAMES BEFORE
THOMAS AQUINAS: FROM ERIUGENA TO JOHN SARRACEN... 32 The Transmission of Pseudo-Dionysius
to the West ................................... 32
The Dionysian Corpus in the Thirteenth Century. 34
John Scottus Eriugena ........................ 38
The Periphyseon.......................... 39
The Versio Dionysii ..................... 57
The Twelfth Century: John Sarracen ........... 61
III. WESTERN INTERPRETERS OF ON THE DIVINE NAMES BEFORE
THOMAS AQUINAS: THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY........... 69
Introduction .................................. 69
Thomas Gallus ................................. 70
Albert the Great .............................. 75
IV. COSMIC STRUCTURE IN THOMAS AQUINAS' COMMENTARY ON
THE DIVINE NAMES: PROCESSION.................... 96
Introduction: Types of Causality ............. 96
Procession ................................... 100
The G o o d ..................................... 107
Beauty and Love .............................. 116
Esse ......................................... 124
V. CONSERVATION................................... 140
Introduction ................................. 140
Participation and Similitude ................ 141
Exemplars and Preexistence .................. 147
God as First Exemplar....................... 155
Virtue, Justice, and Peace .................. 163
VI. RETURN.......................................... 172
Introduction ................................. 172
Metaphysical Order and Grades of Being ...... 172 and more
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