Being

For other uses, see Being (disambiguation).

In philosophy, being is the material or immaterial existence of a thing. ^[1] Being is a concept encompassing objective and subjective features of existence. ^[2] Ontology is the branch of philosophy that studies being. The concept of being has been investigated by philosophers such as Aristotle, ^[3] Thomas Aquinas, ^{[4] [5]} and Martin Heidegger.

See also

• Becoming (philosophy)

Notes

1. "being" . Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press.(Subscription or participating institution membership required.) = "being [...] Existence, the fact of belonging to the universe of things material or immaterial."
2. Winning, Jason; Bechtel, William (2019), Gibb, Sophie; Hendry, Robin; Lancaster, Tom (eds.), "Being Emergence Vs. Pattern Emergence: Complexity, Control, and Goal-Directedness in Biological Systems", The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Emergence, pp. 134–144, retrieved 27 July 2022.
3. Wippel, John F. (2000). The Metaphysical Thought of Thomas Aquinas: From Finite Being to Uncreated Being. Monographs of the Society for Mediaeval and Renaissance Philosophy, No. 1. The Catholic University of America Press. p. 75.
4. Kreyche 1959 , p. 70.
5. Aersten, Jan A. (1995), "Aquinas, St. Thomas", in Kim, Jaegwon; Sosa, Ernest (eds.), A Companion to Metaphysics, Blackwell Companions to Philosophy, pp. 21–22.

References

• Gilson, Étienne (1952). Being and Some Philosophers (2nd corrected and enlarged ed.). Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies (PIMS).
• Kreyche, Robert J. (1959). First Philosophy: An Introductory Text in Metaphysics . New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.