Natural theology in St. Thomas's early doctrine of truth
Resumen: One of Thomas Aquinas's great legacies is the clarity of his teaching about the relationships between theology and philosophy, faith and reason, and grace and nature in general. Of course, that clarity has not prevented the occasional dispute over the philosophical or theological s...
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Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
2021
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| Sumario: | Resumen: One of Thomas Aquinas's great legacies is the clarity of his teaching
about the relationships between theology and philosophy, faith and
reason, and grace and nature in general. Of course, that clarity has not
prevented the occasional dispute over the philosophical or theological
status of any number of particular doctrines. And, in fact, a new
controversy has recently begun to form around the status of Thomas's
doctrine of truth.
The dispute turns on whether or not Thomas's doctrine of truth is
fundamentally theological. In his book Medieval Philosophy and the
Transcendentals: The Case of Thomas Aquinas, Jan Aertsen contends
that Thomas's doctrine of the transcendentals is a philosophical
teaching. Inasmuch as Thomas takes truth to be one of the
transcendentals, Aertsen must, of course, (re)construct Thomas's
doctrine of transcendental truth on philosophical grounds—or, as he
describes it, without a "theological foundation'. It is worth noting that
Aertsen's use of the term "theology" here includes natural theology;
thus, in his effort to claim Thomas's doctrine for philosophy, Aertsen
goes so far as to eschew even any natural theological underpinnings. On
the other side of the dispute, in their recent book Truth in Aquinas,
John Milbank and Catherine Pickstock argue that Thomas's doctrine of
truth is "inherently theological"2. It is striking that Pickstock and
Milbank also use the term "theology" in such a way as to include not
only sacra doctrina, but also tenets that most scholars would recognize
as "natural theology". |
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