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The Cappadocian Reshaping of Metaphysics: Relational Being - Hardcover

Maspero, Giulio

 
9781009412063: The Cappadocian Reshaping of Metaphysics: Relational Being
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 100941206X ISBN 13: 9781009412063
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2023

Synopsis

In this volume, Giulio Maspero explores both the ontology and the epistemology of the Cappadocians from historical and speculative points of view. He shows how the Cappadocians developed a real Trinitarian Ontology through their reshaping of the Aristotelian category of relation, which they rescued from the accidental dimension and inserted into the immanence of the one divine and eternal substance. This perspective made possible a new conception of individuation. No longer exclusively linked to substantial difference, as in classical Greek philosophy, the concept was instead founded on the mutual relation of the divine Persons. The Cappadocians' metaphysical reshaping was also closely linked to a new epistemological conception based on apophaticism, which shattered the logical closure of their opponents, and anticipated results that modern research has subsequently highlighted, Bridging the late antique philosophy with Patristics, Maspero' s study allows us to find the relational traces within the Trinity in the world and in history.

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About the Author

Giulio Maspero is Professor in the Faculty of Theology at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2023
Language
English
ISBN 10 
100941206X
ISBN 13 
9781009412063
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
252