TY - BOOK AU - Clarke, W. Norris (William Norris), 1915- TI - The one and the many: a contemporary Thomistic metaphysics SN - 0268037078 (pbk. : alk. paper) AV - B945.C48 O54 2001 PY - 2001/// CY - Notre Dame, Ind. PB - University of Notre Dame Press KW - Metaphysics. KW - Thomists. N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index.; What Is Metaphysics and Why Do It? -- 2. The Discovery and Meaning of Being -- 3. Special Characteristics of Our Idea of Being as Transcendental and Analogous -- 4. Unity as Transcendental Property of Being -- 5. Being as One and Many: Participation in Existence through Limiting Essence -- 6. The One and the Many on the Same Level of Being: Form and Matter I -- 7. The World of Change: Act and Potency -- 8. Self-Identity in Change: Substance and Accident -- 9. Essential or Substantial Change: Form and Matter II -- 10. The Metaphysical Structures of Finite Being: An Interlocking Synthesis -- 11. Being in Time: What Is Time? -- 12. The Extrinsic Causes of Being and Becoming: A. The Efficient Cause ER -