2 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
American Jesuit philosopher who developed a relational Thomism — integrating Aquinas's act-of-being metaphysics with a personalist understanding of being as essentially self-communicating.
French philosopher and historian of medieval philosophy who argued that Aquinas's central philosophical insight — the distinction between essence and the act of existing (esse) — constitutes the greatest contribution to Western metaphysics.