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1 online resource (256 pages) |
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Cover; Aquinas on Human Self-Knowledge; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Aquinas's general cognition theory; Notes on terminology, texts, and translations; Part I Historical and textual origins; Chapter One The development of a medieval debate; The roots of the problem of self-knowledge; Two Augustinian maxims; Greek and Islamic Neoplatonic influences; Aristotle and his commentators; The mid-thirteenth-century debate; Aquinas vs. his predecessors; Chapter Two The trajectory of Aquinas's theory of self-knowledge, 1252-72 |
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An immature first phase: Aquinas's commentary on the SentencesAn Albertist account: Sent I.3.4.5; A new distinction: Sent III.23.1.2, ad 3; The second phase: innovation and systematization in the late 1250s-1260s; The fourfold division: De veritate, q. 10, a. 8; Does the mind know itself by itself? Summa contra gentiles, bk. 3, ch. 46; The final mature phase: from the late 1260s onward; Knowing my soul by its act: Sententia libri De anima III, c. 3 and Summa theologiae ia, q. 87, a. 1; Returning to one's essence: Super Librum de causis, prop. 15; The "big picture" view |
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Part II Phenomena and problemsChapter Three Perceiving myself; Self-awareness: an everyday phenomenon; Indistinct cognition; Making sense of the content of self-awareness; Two final problems; Chapter Four Perceiving myself; "Like other things": the intuition question; Directness; Immediacy; Self-awareness as self-intuition; Arguments for indirect self-awareness and the first-person problem; Evidence against indirect self-awareness in Aquinas: perceiving agents in their acts; Evidence of direct self-awareness in Aquinas; The immediacy of self-awareness |
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Implications of an intuitive self-awarenessChapter Five The significance of self-presence; Presence and self-presence; Habits in Aquinas15; Habitual and yet not a habit; What conceptual work does habitual self-awareness do?; Chapter Six Implicit vs. explicit self-awareness and the duality of conscious thought; The phenomena; Where does implicit cognition fit?; Participated attention; Implicit cognition; Aquinas's account of implicit self-awareness; Two phenomena of self-awareness?; The light account; The identity account; Two complementary accounts |
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Deciphering explicit self-awarenessAquinas and the bare 'ego'; Chapter Seven Discovering the soul's nature; From prephilosophical self-awareness to a definition; The case of the missing definition; Judging the soul in the light of divine truth; Verificational judgment and the agent intellect; Verificational judgment of the soul's nature; Another type of self-knowledge? Putallaz's "reflexion in the strict sense"; Chapter Eight Self-knowledge and psychological personhood; Metaphysical vs. psychological personhood; The subject-viewpoint: the self and the other; The first person |
| Summary |
A study of Aquinas's theory of self-knowledge, situated within the mid-thirteenth-century debate and his own maturing thought on human nature |
| Notes |
Unity of consciousness across time |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.
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Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274 fast |
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Self-knowledge, Theory of.
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Self-knowledge, Theory of
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781107506718 |
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1107506719 |
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1107497396 |
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9781107497399 |
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9781107042926 |
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1107042925 |
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9781107337619 |
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1107337615 |
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