Today, I'm speaking on the doctrine of God and the analogy of being.

And as a philosophic matter, the doctrine of God is founded upon understanding of the analogia entice.

After all, no other foundation is possible as outside being, there is nothing.

The analogicity of being and its foundational character are conspicuous. First, in his metaphysics, Aristotle affirms that being is not

a genus, as it must contain all its differences, whereas a genus cannot contain the difference,

that is, the foundation of species,

because then all beings of that genus would necessarily be of that species.

Nor yet could being be a species as though it modified a substratum defined in terms of non-being.

Thomas very clearly concurs with his teaching and develops it with great precision.

As Thomas puts it, quote,

Nothing is able to be outside that which is understood by being,

if being is included in the understanding of the things of which it is predicated,

and quote.

Another way to understand the foundational relation of the analogical formality of being

for the doctrine of God is the realization that there can be nothing in the conclusion

of our reasoning that is not implicitly and actually present in the premises.

Thus, if being means only being material in the premises that found our reasoning to the existence

of God, then being can only mean being material in our conclusion.

Hence, the analogical character of being is prior to and the foundation for the

philosophic judgment that God exists, although some recognize the nature of this premise only after realizing the conclusion they have drawn.

But the judgment that being is intrinsically analogous is not something solely available following the proof that God

exists. My remarks today address, first, the foundation of the Aristotelian and Timistic

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