Enrico Berti and others hold that Aquinas’s notion of God as
ipsum esse subsistens conflicts with Aristotle’s view that
positing an Idea of being treats being as a genus and nullifies
all differences. The paper first shows how one of Aquinas’s ways
of distinguishing esse from essence supposes an intimate tie
between a thing’s esse and its differentia. Then it argues that
for Aquinas the (one) divine essence differs from the (manifold)
“essence of esse.” God is his very esse. This (...) somehow
“contains” all esse, but it also transcends it, because although
simple, it also “contains” all forms and differentiae. (shrink)
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