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Intellectual perception is a really important aspect of the Plato's thought. In works of the philosopher there is a Greek word 'noesis' which denotes 'intellectual perception'. However, having read Plato's dialogues and letters, we can find out, that 'noesis' is a phenomenon which has two irreconcilable characteristics. On the one hand, it is a phase of scientific perception, which is connected with...
The Aristotelian technical expression 'in a subject' was traditionally identified with the term 'accident'. However, while acknowledging the identification, Peter Abelard refuses to regard Aristotle's explanation of the concept ('what is in something, not as a part, and cannot exist separately from what it is in') as an intended, or correct, definition of accident. In fact, according to Abelard, Aristotle's...
The main aim of this article, which is assumed to be an introduction to the series of articles about the ethical part of scepticism, is to analyse the formal structure of the anti-ethical argumentation of Sextus Empiricus. The next aim is to create a classification of 'skeptikoi tropoi' used by Sextus. To obtain these aims two works of Sextus were taken into consideration: 'Against the ethicists'...
The article aims at considering one of the most expanded interpretations of Plato's thought, according to which there are two worlds, the world of ideas and that of things that are autonomous and independent from one another. Although this interpretation was elaborated in the Antiquity, it has been ackonwledged recently, due to the Neokantianism, as a decisive explanation of Plato's philosophy and...
This article gives attention to very interesting and innovative conception of being elaborated by John Duns Scotus. Scotus understood being as the object of metaphysics in the widest sense. Interpreted this way, being presents the totality of its content and its modality. Being as being is considered by Scotus in many aspects: in its metaphysical, logical and in predicative meanings. All these significances...
This article attempts to develop ideas included in Stump and Gallagher's papers on St. Thomas Aquinas' understanding of love. Aquinas based his theory of disinterested love on the difference between 'amor amicitiae' and 'amor concupiscentiae'. It is easy to misunderstand this difference. St. Thomas holds that both 'amor amicitiae' and 'amor concupiscentiae' are two sides of the same coin, or two 'movements'...
The one of the most important works of Aelred of Rievaulx is his first work - written at St. Bernard's insistence - 'De speculo caritatis'. Saint Bernard's letter is found at the beginning of Aelred's treatise. The letter was mistakenly and unconditionally ascribed to Gervase, abbot of Louth Park. André Wilmart has proved finally that the sender of it is St. Bernard. In his letter abbot of a Cistercian...
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