INTRODUCCIÓN AL ANÁLISIS DE
LA NOCIÓN PHILOSOPHIA PRIMA EN TOMÁS DE AQUINO Y SUS IMPLICANCIAS REGULATIVAS EN LAS CIENCIAS PARTICULARES
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE ANALYSIS OF THE NOTION PHILOSOPHIA PRIMA IN THOMAS AQUINAS AND ITS REGULATIVE IMPLICATIONS IN PARTICULAR SCIENCES
Author(s): José María Felipe MendozaSubject(s): Philosophy, History of Philosophy, Philosophical Traditions
Published by: International Étienne Gilson Society
Keywords: Thomas Aquinas; philosophia prima; metaphysica; theologia; scientia specialis; scientia universalis
Summary/Abstract: Both in his comments on the Sententiae of Peter Lombard and in his Summa Theologiae, Thomas Aquinas uses the term philosophia prima. Although it is not used by Aquinas frequently, this term marks the technical sense which links theologia and metaphysica as the first sciences with the second sciences, like physics. Against this background, this article attempts to clarify: (1) the need of first philosophy to exist, (2) the Thomistic position which claims that there is only one supreme science which, though possessing three names, has God as its only subiectum, and (3) the meaning of the term philosophia prima.
Journal: Studia Gilsoniana
- Issue Year: 4/2015
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 39-61
- Page Count: 23
- Language: Spanish