Aquinas's Theory of Human Self-knowledge [microform]

Aquinas's Theory of Human Self-knowledge [microform]
Title Aquinas's Theory of Human Self-knowledge [microform] PDF eBook
Author Carl Nelson Still
Publisher National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada
Pages 464
Release 1999
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ISBN 9780612539112

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Aquinas on Human Self-Knowledge

Aquinas on Human Self-Knowledge
Title Aquinas on Human Self-Knowledge PDF eBook
Author Therese Scarpelli Cory
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 255
Release 2014
Genre History
ISBN 1107042925

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A study of Aquinas's theory of self-knowledge, situated within the mid-thirteenth-century debate and his own maturing thought on human nature.

Aquinas's Theory of Human Self-knowledge

Aquinas's Theory of Human Self-knowledge
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Self Knowledge in Thomas Aquinas

Self Knowledge in Thomas Aquinas
Title Self Knowledge in Thomas Aquinas PDF eBook
Author Richard T. Lambert
Publisher Author House
Pages 442
Release 2007-02-01
Genre Psychology
ISBN 1420889672

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This study concerns the position of Saint Thomas Aquinas on human self knowledge (“the soul’s knowledge of itself,” in medieval idiom). Its main goal is to present a comprehensive account of Aquinas’s philosophy of self knowledge, by clarifying his texts on this topic and explaining why he made the claims he did. A second objective is to situate Thomas’s position on self awareness within general world, and specific thirteenth century, traditions concerning this theme. And a third is to apply Aquinas’s approach and insights to selected and contemporary issues that involve self knowledge, such as the alleged paradoxes of self reflection and of “unconscious awareness.” The primary approach is that of “critical narrative,” which attempts to understand St. Thomas’s texts by posing critical questions for them. While this questioning may expose certain texts as equivocal or unsupported, usually Thomas emerges as coherent, reasonable, and better understood. This work is serious scholarship that presumes reader interest in philosophical reflection and some background in medieval type thinking. On the other hand, the book is not narrowly specialized in Aquinas or a single methodology, but includes broad reference to worldwide traditions and attempts to integrate St. Thomas’s approach into topics of contemporary interest.

Aquinas's Theory of Human Self-knowledge

Aquinas's Theory of Human Self-knowledge
Title Aquinas's Theory of Human Self-knowledge PDF eBook
Author Carl Nelson Still
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Release 1999
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This thesis investigates whether Thomas Aquinas's treatment of human self-knowledge constitutes a coherent theory of self-knowledge. It concludes that a case can be made for coherence, provided Aquinas's 'ex professo ' discussions of self-knowledge supply the principles that govern the interpretation of his commentary on Aristotle's 'De anima' and exposition of the Neoplatonic 'Liber de causis.' The first chapter examines the various divisions of self-knowledge treated in the 'ex professo' discussions and argues that Aquinas requires only the twofold Aristotelian distinction between awareness of oneself as an individual and knowledge of the nature of the soul. Intuitive self-knowledge is rejected, since the soul knows itself through actualization by intelligible species. The soul's habitual self-presence and self-knowledge through the eternal exemplars also figure in Aquinas's account, but are not predominant. Chapter two examines self-reflexivity ('reflexio') and the mind's return to itself ('reditio'), which are developed in supplementary texts, and suggests that reflexivity stands to return as individual to universal self-knowledge. While 'reflexio' and ' reditio' both indicate a movement of the mind back upon itself, reflexivity is used as a premise in an argument to the soul's immateriality, while the return of the mind to its essence ('reditio completa') presupposes that the soul's nature has already been attained. Finally, chapter three examines Anthony Kenny's critique of Aquinas's treatment of self-knowledge, which argues (1) that it presupposes but cannot account for the individuation of thought, and (2) that it attributes to the soul a capacity for disembodied existence incompatible the soul's nature as the form of the body. I respond (1) by pointing to Aquinas's individuation of thinkers by their intelligible species, and (2) by investigating Aquinas's account of the disembodied soul, especially his claim that the soul will then know itself as a separate substance. On this latter point I indicate certain potential difficulties for the coherence of Aquinas's theory of self-knowledge. I conclude by suggesting that an epistemological study ultimately provides fullest sense will be attained by broadening the scope of such study to include Aquinas's moral and theological thought.

Aquinas's Theory of Knowledge

Aquinas's Theory of Knowledge
Title Aquinas's Theory of Knowledge PDF eBook
Author William E. Murnion, Ph.D., S.T.L.
Publisher Hillcrest Publishing Group
Pages 356
Release 2016-02-02
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1634135954

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A great luminary of modern Thomistic studies was Bernard J. Lonergan, S.J. (1904-1984). One of his brightest disciples was William Murnion. Murnion was powerfully drawn to Lonergan's interpretations of the thought of Thomas Aquinas and began to deeply immerse himself in the work and the evolution of the thought of both. After five years of research and writing, Murnion had to interrupt his studies due to professional and personal demands. Several years later he successfully completed and defended a doctoral dissertation which was published only in part. This book is the complete, unrevised, original work. As Murnion observed in his preface, "only the title is modified...the betterto clarify the topic. I suppose I could have massaged the text to incorporate some of the things I have learned about Aquinas in the meantime. But just as it is, I believe it presents a clear and cogent argument for the claim I defended in it about Aquinas's explanation of the act of understanding."

Thomas Aquinas and the Problem of Human Self-knowledge

Thomas Aquinas and the Problem of Human Self-knowledge
Title Thomas Aquinas and the Problem of Human Self-knowledge PDF eBook
Author Therese Scarpelli Cory
Publisher
Pages 418
Release 2009
Genre Self-knowledge, Theory of
ISBN 9781109491067

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The fourth chapter examines the third and fourth kinds of self-knowledge and reviews F.-X. Putallaz's argument that reditio completa constitutes a fifth type of self-knowledge.