Paz Pedreira de Freitas Catapano

This research aims at exploring the Theoremata of Gilles of Rome in order to understand his contribution to his contemporary debate about the distinction between being and essence. His position in this debate has been the interest of contemporary academia, both as a proponent of the 'real' distinction between being and essence and in his relationship to his professor, Thomas Aquinas. The research will explore four main questions. 1) What Gilles understands as 'real' in the distinction, both using the source text and contemporary uses of res and realis. 2) Comparing his use of the analogies, in their reach and limitation, between the distinction of being and essence and another contemporary distinction, the one between matter and form. 3) Clarify the author's notion of participation, as it is employed since the first theorem and it is the basis for his argumentation. 4) Undrstanding how the distinction between being and essence and the conecpt of participation relate to another of the author's notions, of flux, insofar as being is understood as in a flux from God to creation.