{"product_id":"elementary-philosophy-ontology-cosmology-and-theodicy-volume-ii-zeferino-gonzalez-y-diaz-tunon","title":"Elementary Philosophy - On General and Special Metaphysics, Volume II - Zephyrinus Gonzalez","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eElementary Philosophy, Volume II, presents González's treatment of metaphysics divided into its two classical branches, continuing the systematic philosophical course begun in the first volume and advancing the student toward the deepest questions of reality and being.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe volume opens with general metaphysics, examining being as such, its transcendental properties, and its principles of act and potency, substance and accident, and the four causes. González follows Aquinas in grounding metaphysical analysis in the real distinction between essence and existence as the foundation of all created being.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eIt then proceeds to special metaphysics, applying these principles to the three great objects of higher philosophical inquiry — the material world, the human person, and God as first cause and supreme being. Each is examined in light of the metaphysical principles established in the preceding section.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThroughout the volume González maintains the systematic didactic clarity characteristic of the work as a whole, presenting the Thomistic metaphysical tradition as the most adequate philosophical account of reality available to natural reason.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Scholastic Archive","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57776239149381,"sku":null,"price":74.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1055\/1790\/8293\/files\/1777320583.jpg?v=1777320603","url":"https:\/\/rm12kr-ug.myshopify.com\/products\/elementary-philosophy-ontology-cosmology-and-theodicy-volume-ii-zeferino-gonzalez-y-diaz-tunon","provider":"Scholastic Archive","version":"1.0","type":"link"}