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Being Itself as a Compromise of the One and the Necessary Being
PU Rongjian
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DOI:10.17265/2328-2177/2025.06.003
Shandong University, Jinan, China
For realism, the ultimate rational standard is the law of non-contradiction because the basic proposition for the intellect requires: Being is not non-being. The One of Plotinus is beyond being, but the Intellect, emanated from the One, has being and is also one. With essence and existence, Aquinas endeavors to serve faith with reason in that God is defined as being itself according to the name of God who revealed to Moses. Writing for the atheists in his Five Ways, Aquinas defines God with five names, and his conclusion from the Third Way is the existence of a necessary being. The One is timeless without will; the necessary being exists in time; if I Am Who I Am is understood rationally with essence and existence, then the Biblical God becomes a god of intellect. Being itself is neither life-giving nor holy. Regarding time, being itself can be viewed as a compromise of the One and the necessary being of the Five Ways.
being itself, the One, the necessary being