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Acknowledgments The following chapters are reprinted with permission of the original publishers. Chapter 1, “What Is Metaphysics?” appeared in Études Maritainiennes/ Maritain Studies 9 (1993), 145–60; chapter 2, “What Does It Mean to Study Being ‘as Being’?” in International Journal of Philosophy [Taipei] (July 2004), 63–86; chapter 3, “St. Thomas and the Ground of Metaphysics ,” in Philosophical Knowledge, edited by John B. Brough, Daniel O. Dahlstrom, and Henry B. Veatch, Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, vol. 54 (Washington, 1980), 144–54; chapter 4, “St. Thomas, Physics, and the Principle of Metaphysics,” in The Thomist 61 (1997), 549–66; chapter 5, “St. Thomas and the Principle of Causality ,” in Jacques Maritain: philosophe dans la cite [A Philosopher in the World] (1985), 53–71, and chapter 10, “St Thomas, Form, and Incorruptibility,” in Être et Savoir (1989), 77–90, both edited by Jean-Louis Allard and reprinted by permission of the University of Ottawa Press. Chapter 7, “The Importance of Substance” (1997), and chapter 12, “Nature as a Metaphysical Object” (2001), were originally published on the website of the Jacques Maritain Center at the University of Notre Dame. Chapter 8, “St. Thomas, Metaphysics, and Formal Causality,” appeared in Laval théologique et philosophique 36 (1980): 285–316; chapter 9, “St. Thomas, Metaphysical Procedure, and the Formal Cause,” in The New Scholasticism 63 (1989): 173–82; chapter 11, “St. Thomas and the Distinction between Form and Esse in Caused Things,” in Gregorianum 60 (1999): 353–70; and chapter 13, “The Individual as a Mode of Being according to Thomas Aquinas,” in The Thomist 63 (1997): 403–24. vii ...

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