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The Peripatetic axiom is: "Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses" ( Latin: Nihil est in intellectu quod non sit prius in sensu). It is found in De veritate, q. 2 a. 3 arg. 19 by Thomas Aquinas. [1]
Aquinas adopted this principle from the Peripatetic school of Greek philosophy, established by Aristotle.[ where?] Aquinas argued that the existence of God could be proved by reasoning from sense data. [2] He used a variation on the Aristotelian notion of the " active intellect" (Latin: intellectus agens) [3] which he interpreted as the ability to abstract universal meanings from particular empirical data. [4]
References
- ^ Aquinas, Thomas. Quaestiones disputatae de veritate.
- ^ Leftow, Brian (ed., 2006), Aquinas: Summa Theologiae, Questions on God, pp. vii et seq.[ ISBN missing]
- ^ Z. Kuksewicz, “The Potential and the Agent Intellect,” in: N. Kretzmann, e.a., The Cambridge History of Later Medieval Philosophy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982), pp. 595–601[ ISBN missing]
- ^ Macmillan Encyclopedia of Philosophy (1969), "Thomas Aquinas", subsection on "Theory of Knowledge", vol. 8, pp. 106–107.[ ISBN missing]
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The Peripatetic axiom is: "Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses" ( Latin: Nihil est in intellectu quod non sit prius in sensu). It is found in De veritate, q. 2 a. 3 arg. 19 by Thomas Aquinas. [1]
Aquinas adopted this principle from the Peripatetic school of Greek philosophy, established by Aristotle.[ where?] Aquinas argued that the existence of God could be proved by reasoning from sense data. [2] He used a variation on the Aristotelian notion of the " active intellect" (Latin: intellectus agens) [3] which he interpreted as the ability to abstract universal meanings from particular empirical data. [4]
References
- ^ Aquinas, Thomas. Quaestiones disputatae de veritate.
- ^ Leftow, Brian (ed., 2006), Aquinas: Summa Theologiae, Questions on God, pp. vii et seq.[ ISBN missing]
- ^ Z. Kuksewicz, “The Potential and the Agent Intellect,” in: N. Kretzmann, e.a., The Cambridge History of Later Medieval Philosophy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982), pp. 595–601[ ISBN missing]
- ^ Macmillan Encyclopedia of Philosophy (1969), "Thomas Aquinas", subsection on "Theory of Knowledge", vol. 8, pp. 106–107.[ ISBN missing]