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ENS, VERUM AND BONUM. AQUINAS ON EPISTEMOLOGY AND ETHICS
ENS, VERUM AND BONUM. AQUINAS ON EPISTEMOLOGY AND ETHICS

Author(s): Augusto Trujillo WERNER,
Subject(s): Philosophy, Epistemology
Published by: Ideas Forum International Academic and Scientific Association
Keywords: Aquinas; epistemology; ethics;

Summary/Abstract: This scholarship article explains how Thomas Aquinas understood the very beginning of the intellect bothpractical and theoretical in a person. a) On commencement of the abstraction of the first universalconcepts: ens, verum et bonum simpliciter, universal or wisdom seeds. b) On formulating the firstpractical commandments, and the second ones in the integral person, in quantum talis, compound of realnature or essence, and act of being. c) Therefore, about the use of reason and morality, as general level«do (universal) good and avoid (universal) evil», as particular level «do (human) good and avoid (human)evil». d) The natural law (ethics) is naturally derived or concluded from integral human beings(anthropology).

  • Issue Year: 3/2019
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 42-48
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: English