Did St. Thomas Aquinas Endorse the View that the World Could Have Always Existed? A Reply to Wippel and Bukowski

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dc.article.numbere1539
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dc.contributor.authorIrarrazaval Mainguyague Jose Luis
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dc.description.abstractRegarding the topic of the eternity of the world, the following position is often attributed to St. Thomas Aquinas: that the world, in fact, had a beginning, but could have always existed. However, in none of Aquinas' texts can an explicit defense of the possibility of an eternal world be found. Nevertheless, at least two authors, John F. Wippel and Thomas Bukowski, offer a systematic defense in favor of such attribution. This paper argues for the opposite, namely, that it is inaccurate to attribute to Aquinas the claim that the world could have always existed. For this, the argumentation of the two aforementioned authors is reviewed step by step, and a counterargument for both is presented. The paper then turns to the distinction that Aquinas himself makes regarding the various senses of "possible" in article 14 of De potentia. This distinction is used to complement Giles of Rome's framework in order to provide greater clarity regarding Aquinas' precise stance on the possibility of an eternal world.
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dc.identifier.doi10.21555/top.v720.2900
dc.identifier.eissn2007-8498
dc.identifier.issn0188-6649
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dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.21555/top.v720.2900
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/105421
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dc.information.autorucInstituto de Filosofía; Irarrazaval Mainguyague Jose Luis; S/I; 1029547
dc.issue.numero72
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dc.nota.accesoContenido parcial
dc.pagina.final92
dc.pagina.inicio67
dc.publisherBloomsbury Publishing Plc.
dc.relation.ispartof21st Annual Conference of the International-Society-for-Environmental-Epidemiology, AUG 25-29, 2009, Dublin, IRELAND
dc.revistaTOPICOS-REVISTA DE FILOSOFIA
dc.rightsregistro bibliográfico
dc.subjectpossibility
dc.subjecteternity of the world
dc.subjectcosmology
dc.subjectThomas Aquinas
dc.subjectcontemporary interpreters
dc.subject.ddc610
dc.subject.deweyMedicina y saludes_ES
dc.subject.ods03 Good health and well-being
dc.subject.odspa03 Salud y bienestar
dc.titleDid St. Thomas Aquinas Endorse the View that the World Could Have Always Existed? A Reply to Wippel and Bukowski
dc.typeartículo
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