Polisemia del término potencia en la filosofía tomística de la mente

SANTIAGO ARGÜELLO

Patristica et Medievalia

Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, UBA

Lugar: Buenos Aires; Año: 2014 vol. 35 p. 15 - 30

0325-2280

Is it correct to say that there is philosophy of mind in Aquinas most mature works? Or is his philosophy of mind just an issue of his early thought, inherited from the Augustinian tradition, and which, after the apparition of the works of Aristotle, would have stricto sensu shifted into a philosophy of soul? This is the fundamental question that lies beneath an interesting discussion raised a few years ago among some English-speaking scholars about Thomas Aquinas? thought. The discussion is picked up here in order to point out a possible way to solve it. This consists of the distinction between three different senses of the term ?potency? in Aquinas? philosophy, which leads to realize that there is no opposition between Augustinism and Aristotelianism in Aquinas.