Aquinas on the Divine Ideas as Exemplar Causes

Index of Subjects

265 INDEx oF SUBJECTS ^ accidents: inseparable, 136–37, 143, 217; intension and remission of, 230–31; participation and, 198, 200–205, 207n55, 230, 231n108, 240; proper, 136–37, 143, 217; separable, 136–37, 143, 146, 150n72, 155, 217, 230, 247. See also being (ens); divine ideas; form act: First Act, 207, 211–12; God as pure act, 148, 246; not self-limiting, 208–10, 235n117, 243; participation and, 208–11; potency and, xiv, 208, 211–12, 243; of understanding, 88–92, 94, 103, 106–7. See also being (esse); form; perfection action: divine, 188, 226–27; instrumental, 181, 186; proper, 186, 188 actuality. See act Agent Intellect, xvn6, 167. See also dator formarum agents: assimilation of effects to, 26, 47, 51, 53, 57–59, 60, 225–26; as cause of others’ actions, 177–88; intelligent, 15, 20–24, 26–33, 37, 42, 49, 57–59, 60–63, 244; intention of, 6, 12n26, 21, 24, 26, 28–32, 34, 37, 41, 43, 59, 61–63, 80, 100, 128, 142, 144, 147, 157–59, 243, 245–46; immaterial, 51, 52, 60; instrumental, 179–81, 184, 186; natural, xvi, xviii, 15, 20–23, 28, 47, 52, 57–59, 61, 62, 63, 78, 154, 165–77, 178–82, 184–88, 189, 215–16, 244–45, 248; particular , 172–73, 174–76, 185; principal, 52, 100, 179, 181, 184, 189; universal, 172, 174–76, 186, 189; voluntary, 28, 32–33, 34, 40 analogy: of art and divine exemplarism, xv, 3, 8n19, 13–14, 16n35, 20n41, 42–43, 44, 82, 127–28, 156–57, 163–64, 223–27; and divine knowledge, 89n15, 94–95, 127–28; and dynamic ordering, 63; and exemplarism of divine nature, 149; in Fourth Way, 73; and natural exemplarism, 21n45, 78n80; and participation, 199–200; and predication of esse, 206; and term “exemplar,” 19, 20, 21–23, 153–54; and types of exemplars, 19, 20, 21–23, 153–54 angels: Avicebron on, 166; Avicenna on, 167; hierarchy of, 183n90; intellect of, xvn6, 99n44, 116, 183–84, 186–87, 189, 248; as movers, 182n89, 183–84, 186; as separate from matter, 183 Aristotelian: division of causes, 39, 82, 245; influences in Thomas, xviii, 68, 112, 144, 187n98, 197, 228–29, 250 art: divine, 102, 127–28, 142, 163, 223–28; and exemplarism, 7, 22, 222–26; human art, 3–4, 5, 20n41, 42, 127, 149, 163, 174, 223–26; instrument of, 181, 187–88; and knowledge, 9, 27, 131; versus nature, 38, 170, 225–26; and truth, 27; work of, 9, 26, 27, 28, 36, 41, 43, 58, 77n78, 82, 149, 179, 187–88. See also divine exemplarism; divine ideas; divine knowledge; exemplarism ; ideas; knowledge artificial: forms, 4–5, 58. See also art artisan. See art assimilation: art and, 27n62, 28, 36, 57, 225–26; divine exemplarism and, 27n62, 57–58, 73, 128, 149, 152, 225–26, 238; divine ideas and, 128, 149, 233, 237, 238; exemplarism and, 12n26, 26, 27n62, 73, 128; natural agency and, 28, 225–26; participation and, 74, 192, 210, 211–12, 233, 237; Plato on, 192. See also divine exemplarism ; exemplarism; imitation 266 INDEx oF SUBJECTS attributes: of being (ens), 65, 70, 90; divine, 77–78, 90, 105n54, 116n82, 118–19, 148–49, 218–19, 233 becoming. See coming-to-be being (ens): accidents as beings, 136; created beings, 108, 152–53, 155, 178, 194, 203, 207, 210, 215, 216, 217n82, 221, 223, 230, 234, 247, 248; finite (limited) beings, 66–69, 72–74, 79, 82, 150–53, 204, 206–10, 213–15, 217–18, 219, 221–22, 225, 228–33, 234–42, 242–43, 247–49, 252; First Being, 69, 77n78, 207, 211, 222; as first effect, 180; in general (ens commune), 199; God as a, 176; God as cause of, 54, 56, 65, 184, 239n128; individual beings, 206, 207n55; intelligent beings, 77n78; material, 150–51, 165n34; maximal (maxime ens), 65, 68, 69n57, 70, 72–75; natural beings, 47, 180; and participation, 176, 195–99, 200–210, 218, 219–20, 227–28, 228–33, 234–42, 242–43, 249; that-which-is (id quod est), 196, 199. See also being (esse); essence; non-being being (esse): and accidents, 134n29, 135; act of (actus essendi), xiv, 4, 9, 90, 108–11, 141, 165n34, 168, 173–74, 176, 198, 201–9, 211– 12, 213–16, 218, 222–23, 227–28, 233–35, 237–42; Being Itself (ipsum esse), 110, 116, 218, 222, 234, 235; cause of, 33n75, 46, 70, 173–76, 180, 186n96, 192, 215, 216; composition with essence...