Br. Dunstan Robidoux, OSB In speaking about human cognitive acts and especially about human acts of understanding, instead of speaking about laws of nature […]
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Identity in Human Cognition
It is no easy task to try to understand the principle of identity in human cognition. In order to do so, I would like to […]
Moving through Conceptuality with Acts of Understanding: Augustine, Aquinas, Lonergan
To understand a bit better what could be meant by saying that acts of understanding, by their very nature, always transcend material variables and […]
Lonergan’s Notions of Consciousness Derived from St. Augustine’s Notions of Presence
In the De Trinitate, 10, 3, 12, St. Augustine distinguishes between two kinds of presence (which have been interpreted as two kinds of object). A […]
Aquinas’s Distinction between Natural Being and Intentional Being
by Br. Dunstan Robidoux OSB In Aristotle, De Anima, 3, 4, 430a 3-4, one finds a discussion which argues that in human cognition, if material […]
Matter as a Cause of Knowing in Aquinas and Lonergan
by Br. Dunstan Robidoux OSB In conformity with Aristotle’s understanding of human cognition, Aquinas argues, with respect to human cognition, that “it is as ridiculous […]
Form as a Cause of Knowing in Aquinas and Lonergan
by Br. Dunstan Robidoux OSB When commenting on Aristotle’s Metaphysics, Aquinas repeats what Aristotle says that form (forma) is ratio. Cf. Sententia super Metaphysicam, 8, […]
Essence in Aquinas and Lonergan
by Br. Dunstan Robidoux OSB Given a certain indebtedness that one finds in both Aquinas and Lonergan toward Aristotle, one best attends to developments […]
Understanding the Proceeding of an Intellectual Emanation in its Uniqueness
by Br. Dunstan Robidoux OSB If intellectual emanation cannot be properly understood in terms of cause and effect, it follows that, if one is to […]
Understanding the Proceeding of an Intellectual Emanation in its Uniqueness Employing a Thomist Distinction
by Br. Dunstan Robidoux OSB In attempting to understand the nature of an intellectual emanation as one kind of intellectual act comes from another kind […]