Thomist epistemology: An ontological conception of reality
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https://doi.org/10.62876/lr.v0i23.3015Keywords:
Aquinas, epistemology, Understanding agentAbstract
The following article considers the main features of the epistemology of Saint Thomas Aquinas, in order to demonstrate the way man obtains knowledge of the natural world, and of God. In this matter, is presented the rol of the soul and the agent intellect in the sensory perception of natural objects. It is explained the way man obtains knowledge of such objects through the subjective abstraction, faculty of the agent intellect. Thus, we intend to answer the following premises, who is the cognoscent object in Aquinas system, who or what is the object of knowledge and how the cognoscent object gets to know.
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