PHIL 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Teleology
9 May 2016
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Disputationes: is a scholastic form of education, used in the medieval era. It s a way to engage in a formal structured debate. Key question: whether the more universal is first in our intellectual cognition. On the contrary: we must proceed from universal to singular. I answer that: (aquinas) knowledge/singular is prior (410) Replies to objections: (aquinas: 2 kinds of knowledge a. Intellectual: knowledge of universals: sensible: knowledge of particulars and singulars, our intellect proceeds from a state of potentiality to a state of actuality. a. Incomplete acts: incomplete knowledge- the object i known confusingly and indistinctly (aquinas thinks this counts as knowledge: perfect knowledge: complete knowledge- object is distinctly determinately known (plato thinks this is the only knowledge) Aquinas is trying to prove that knowledge of singular is prior to knowledge of universe.
