Opažanje i čulna spoznaja kod Tome Akvinskog
Thomas Aquinas Perception and Sensory Cognition

Author(s): Predrag Milidrag
Subject(s): Philosophy, Epistemology, Philosophy of Religion
Published by: Институт друштвених наука
Keywords: Thomas Aquinas; epistemology; human being
Summary/Abstract: In the thought of Thomas Aquinas, an important place is occupied by the analysis of the human being. The angelic doctor invites the reader to a consistent examination of man as a being that exists and lives at the point of contact between the corporeal and the incorporeal order. Finding that it is a being made up of a material and spiritual principle, the saint explains this composition in the categories of the union between body and soul in the nature of man. This unity of soul and body led him to the explanation of man as a being that is not only a unity of the material and spiritual in being, but such a unity in operations as well. Tomin man is the kind of being that needs the simultaneous and coordinated activity of several powers to fulfill the goal of his nature. The saint does not think of man as a unity in which different functions would lose their characteristics; man is rather a unity in the sense that he must act by means of several powers at the same time.

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