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Introduction Chapter 1. Historical Background 1. The Neoplatonic via
Proclus: The One and the Many 2. The Problem of Neoplatonism in the
Christian Tradition 3. Aristotle via Avicenna and the Early Franciscan
Tradition, or What Exactly Is Aristotelianism?
Chapter 2. The Theory of Forms in Thomas Aquinas 1. The Structure of
Creation 2. Participation 3. Participation in the Fourth Way? 4.
Participation in Exemplar Causes? 5. Conclusion
Chapter 3. The Controversy: Bonaventure and Aristotle 1. History of
Scholarship on Bonaventure 2. The "Anti-Aristotelianism" of the
Collationes
Chapter 4. An Aristotelian Account of Universals 1. Form, Esse, Actuality,
Goodness 2. Universal Forms and Seminal Reasons 3. Universals 4. Conclusion
Chapter 5. Forms as Caused by God 1. God Beyond Being 2. Exemplar Causation
3. A Multiplicity of Ideas? 4. Conclusion
Chapter 6. Forms in the Natural World 1. Individuation 2. Light and the
Question of a Plurality of Substantial Forms 3. Causation 4. Evil 5.
Conclusion
Conclusion
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