The transcendental “properties” of being: res, unum, aliquid, verum, bonum, pulchrum; the first principles of knowledge derived from transcendental notions. 2. Analytic of being I: the metaphysical composition of being: act and potency (in the Aristotelian sense) in becoming, multiplicity, and contingency: substance and accidents; matter and form; essence and esse. 3. Analytic of being II: the extrinsic causes: efficient, final, and exemplary causality; acting; divine and creaturely causality. 4. The person (substance and relation categories); “onto-logical” character of the person; the person as metaphysical synthesis and pinnacle.