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Abstract (EN):
The understanding of the nature and functions of the intellect became one
of the main problems of the 13th-century Latin reception of Aristotle’s De anima,
which highlighted similar difficulties to those already felt by the Greek and Arab
commentators in their struggle with those brief, laconic, cryptic pages where that faculty
of the soul is discussed. Those early difficulties were increased by the reception
of this theory in the already doctrinally-saturated vocabulary of the Augustinian tradition,
where the demands of Christian theology and anthropology dominated the
understanding of the soul-body relationship, perception, and the explanation of
the activity of the rational soul as illumination. Petrus Hispanus’ Scientia libri de
anima addresses those difficulties with a long-winded theory of the faculties of the
soul, which silently appropriates Avicenna’s Liber de anima and other sources so
as to explain human life, sensation, and knowledge. Here we discuss the explanation
of the agent intellect, which allows us to observe how John of La Rochelle and Franciscan
philosophy more generally inspired Petrus Hispanus’ position.
Idioma:
Inglês
Tipo (Avaliação Docente):
Científica