Aquinas on Human Self-Knowledge
“Aquinas on Human Self-Knowledge” by Therese Scarpelli Cory, published by Cambridge University Press on October 22, 2015, is a reprint edition comprising 254 pages in English. This book explores the sophisticated theory of self-knowledge developed by Thomas Aquinas in the thirteenth century, a topic often attributed to the early modern period. Cory presents Aquinas’s approach as a means of reconciling the complexities of self-opacity and privileged self-access, situating his ideas within the context of mid-thirteenth-century philosophical debates.
Readers will find an in-depth investigation into the various forms of self-knowledge that Aquinas articulates, along with the philosophical questions they raise. Cory highlights the significance of self-knowledge in Aquinas’s understanding of cognition and personhood, revealing its central role in his broader philosophical framework. This examination offers valuable insights into intentionality, reflexivity, and selfhood, making it relevant for those studying Aquinas and the history of medieval philosophy.
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Self-knowledge is commonly thought to have become a topic of serious philosophical inquiry during the early modern period. Already in the thirteenth century, however, the medieval thinker Thomas Aquinas developed a sophisticated theory of self-knowledge, which Therese Scarpelli Cory presents as a project of reconciling the conflicting phenomena of self-opacity and privileged self-access. Situating Aquinas’s theory within the mid-thirteenth-century debate and his own maturing thought on human nature, Cory investigates the kinds of self-knowledge that Aquinas describes and the questions they raise. She shows that to a degree remarkable in a medieval thinker, self-knowledge turns out to be central to Aquinas’s account of cognition and personhood, and that his theory provides tools for considering intentionality, reflexivity and selfhood. Her engaging account of this neglected aspect of medieval philosophy will interest readers studying Aquinas and the history of medieval philosophy more generally.
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