Ens Primum Cognitum in Thomas Aquinas and the Tradition

Ens Primum Cognitum in Thomas Aquinas and the Tradition

The Philosophy of Being as First Known

Kemple, Brian

Brill

09/2017

376

Mole

Inglês

9789004352391

15 a 20 dias

In Ens Primum Cognitum, Brian Kemple examines the meaning of Thomas Aquinas' claim that "being" is the first object of the intellect and proposes an interpretation with dramatic consequences for Thomistic epistemology and metaphysics.
Acknowledgements Introduction: Escaping the Framework of Modernity Prefatory Notes on Terminology Subject and Object, ens naturae and ens rationis Ideoscopic and Cenoscopic Concept, verbum mentis, species expressa Ens ut primum cognitum and ens primum cognitum Influential Approaches to Ens Primum Cognitum Objectively and Socially-Constituted Reality Thomas Aquinas: Intellectus Agens, Verbum Mentis, Relatio 1 The Latin Thomists and Ens Primum Cognitum 1.1 The Early Dispute: Setting the Stage 1.1.1 The Scotistic Foil 1.2 Thomas Cajetan and the Doctrine of Being 1.2.1 Cajetan's Four Cognitions and Three Abstractions 1.2.2 The Doctrine of Analogy 1.2.3 Conclusion 1.3 John Poinsot, the Nature of Concepts and Ens ut Primum Cognitum 1.3.1 Objectivity and Conceptualization 1.3.2 De Primo Cognito 1.3.3 Objectivity and the Concept of Ens Primum Cognitum 2 Recent Thomistic Interpretations of Ens Primum Cognitum 2.1 Etienne Gilson's "Metaphysical Realism" 2.1.1 Overcoming Critique 2.1.2 Abstraction and the Nature of the Concept 2.1.3 Realism vs. Idealism and the Question of Ens ut Primum Cognitum 2.2 Jacques Maritain 2.2.1 Maritain on Abstraction 2.2.2 Concept Formation 2.2.3 Maritain on Ens Primum Cognitum 2.3 Conclusion 3 The Intellectus Agens and Concept Formation 3.1 St. Thomas and the Obiectum Intellectus 3.1.1 Ens, ens ut verum, and ens intelligibile 3.1.2 Quod quid est, quid est, and quod quid erat esse 3.1.3 Quidditas rei and quidditas rei materialis 3.2 Intellectus Agens 3.2.1 Illuminare 3.2.2 Digression on Nature: Matter, Form, and Understanding 3.2.3 Abstrahere 4 The Discursion of Concept Formation 4.1 The Discursion of Intellectual Discovery 4.1.1 From Pre-Philosophical Cognition to Philosophical Science 4.1.2 Intellectual Discovery and the Philosophical Sciences 4.2 Formation of the Verbum Mentis 4.2.1 The Derivation of Primary Concepts 4.2.2 Terminus of Intellectual Operation and Intentional Fundamentum 4.2.3 Necessity of Composition 4.2.4 Definition and Quiddity 4.3 A Recursive Analysis of the Species Expressa 4.3.1 True and False Concepts 4.3.2 Species Expressae and Cognition-Dependent Objects 4.3.3 What is Inessential to Things is Essential to Our Concepts 5 Relation and Ens Primum Cognitum 5.1 What is Relation? 5.1.1 Relativa Secundum Esse 5.1.2 Relativa Secundum Dici 5.1.3 The Constitution of Cognition-Dependent Relative Being 5.2 Relations and Objectivity 5.2.1 Intellectual Apprehension of Relations 5.2.2 Interpretation and the Constitution of Objective Realities 5.2.3 "Reality", "The Real", and Objective Constitution 6 The Nature of Ens Primum Cognitum 6.1 Summary of Argument 6.2 The Nature of Ens Primum Cognitum 6.2.1 St. Thomas and the Resolutio ad Ens Primum Cognitum 6.3 Conclusion References Historically Layered
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