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This essay contains the revised text of an article which originally appeared in the review, Dieu Vivant (20: Paris, 1951), with the title, De l’élément négatif dans la philosophie de Saint Thomas It was published in a condensed form in the periodical Hochland (Munich, 1953).
The short quotation at the beginning of this essay is taken from the Tao Tê Ching of Lao-tse (part 1, chapter 1).
1 Martin Heidegger, Platons Lehre von der Wahrheit (Berne, 1947), p. 5.
2 This is clearly brought out in Karl Eschweiler’s book Die zwei Wege der neueren Theologie (Augsburg, 1926), pp. 81ff., 283, 296. Other theses which he proposes are more open to debate.
3 Cf. Josef Pieper, Wahrheit der 2nd edition (Munich, 1951).
4 The paragraph in question is no. 12, which discusses “the famous scholastic sentence: omne ens est
5 Romano Guardini, Welt und Person (Würzburg, 1940), p. 110.
6 Jean-Paul Sartre, L’existentialisme est un humanisme (Paris, 1946), p. 94.
7 Sartre, op. cit., p. 22.
8 Summa I, 93, 6.
9 Quaestiones Disputatae de 1, 2.
10 I Timothy, vi, 4.
11 Commentary on the Liber de I, 6.
12 pp. 20ff., pp. 73ff.
13 Summa I, 21, 2.
14 Summa I, 16, 2.
15 Quaestiones Disputatae de I, 1.
16 XIII, 38. Cf. also De VI, 10.
17 Commentary in I, 2.
18 Summa I, 14, 12 ad 3.
19 Thomas quotes this sentence for instance in Summa I, 16, 1; Summa Contra I, 60; Quaestiones Disputatae de I, 2.
20 Quia de Deo scire non possumus quid sit, sed quid non sit, non possumus considerare de Deo quomod sit, sed potius quomodo non I, 3, prologue.)
21 I, 2 ad 1.
22 Quaestio Disputata de Potentia 7, 5 ad 14.
23 In the first chapter.
24 Commentary in Aristotelem, De I, 1, 15.
25 Quaestio Disputata de Spiritualibus 11 ad 3.
26 Quaestiones Disputatae de 4, 1 ad 8.
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28 Quaestiones Disputatae de 5, 2 ad 11.
29 Summa I, 15, 2.
30 Quaestiones Disputatae de 18, 2 ad 5.
31 Summa I, II, 31, 5.
32 Apologia doctae 2, 20ff.
33 II, I, (993b).
34 Commentary in Metaphysicam II, I, no. 286.