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• Title Page
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: BEING
• I. Being Itself (ipsum esse) and Beings (entia)
• A. Ontological Difference
• B. Unity and Diversity
• C. The Universal and the Particular
• D. First Contemplation
• II. Form and Matter
• A. Hylomorphism
• B. Spiritual Being
• C. Contemplating Spirit
• III. Substance
• A. Substance and Accidents
• B. Substance in the Concrete
• C. Substance in the Abstract
• D. Essence and Existence
• E. Christology
• IV. I Am
• Questions
• Chapter 2: FIRST PRINCIPLES
• I. First Principles of Being
• A. The Good
• B. That Than Which Nothing Greater Can Be Thought
• II. Laws of Logic
• A. The Principle of Noncontradiction
• B. The Principle of the Excluded Middle
• C. The Principle of Identity and Difference
• III. “In the beginning was the Logos” (John 1:1)
• Questions
• Chapter 3: CAUSALITY
• I. Act and Potency
• II. Aristotle’s Four Causes
• A. Material Cause
• B. Efficient Cause
• C. Formal Cause
• D. Final Cause
• E. Thomas Aquinas’s Five Ways to Verify Divinity
• III. “Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life” (John 3:36a)
• Questions
• Chapter 4: COSMOLOGY
• I. Law and Order
• II. Hierarchy of Being
• III. The Transcendentals
• IV. Eschatology
• V. “The redeemer of man, Jesus Christ, is the center of the universe and of history” (John Paul II, Redemptor Hominis, 1)
• Questions
• Chapter 5: MORALITY
• I. Do Good and Avoid Evil
• II. Moral Law
• A. Eternal Law
• B. Natural Law
• C. Human/Civil Law
• D. Divine Law
• III. Conscience
• IV. A More Excellent Way
• V. Morality Incomplete
• Questions