About “De ente et essentia”

De ente et essentia is a work by scholastic philosopher and Catholic saint Thomas Aquinas, written between approximately 1252 and 1256. It explains the metaphysical relationship between a thing's esse (being), described as its "whatness", and its essentia (existence), described as its "is-ness". (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)

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De ente et essentia by Thomas Aquinas has 47 pages.

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