Abstract

LIMARDO, Darío José. "Relation" as a "Category": towards its sistematization and its metaphysical problems in Thomas Aquinas. Tópicos (México) [online]. 2016, n.51, pp.159-189. ISSN 0188-6649.  https://doi.org/10.21555/top.v0i0.748.

"Relation" in Thomas Aquinas is one of the Aristotelian categories that represents "accidents". Nevertheless there are a few difficulties in such metaphysical commitment because the division "substance"-"accidents" do not assign a place to the idea of a "middle term" between two things. In this paper I present some tensions between the systematization of "relation" as a category in Thomas Aquinas and his position about the "status" of predicaments in general. For this purpose I first analyze the deduction of the categories as presented by the author and then deal with the "relation" in a systematic way. In this exposition I argue that Thomas have several difficulties in order to assign the relation an "own accidental foundation" different from the other predicaments that allow him to consider it one of the "categories".

Keywords : Relation; categories, inherence; accidents; metaphysics; Thomas Aquinas.