Saint Thomas and Platonism
A Study of the Plato and Platonici Texts in the Writings of Saint Thomas
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Reverend R. J. Henle S.J.
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The Separated Substances
While the discussion of the Platonic Ideas was, in a sense, a discussion of separated substances, there still remains room for a specific investigation under the rubric ‘separated substances.’ For Saint Thomas...
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Introduction
An effort has been made to collect and list in this Part One every text from the works of Saint Thomas in which the terms ‘Plato’ or ‘Platonici’ occur.1 The collection was made by searching the works of Saint Tho...
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Saint Thomas’ Methodology in the Treatment of Positiones
We will begin with the study of a text presented in the fifth article of the Quaestio de Spiritualibus Creaturis.1 The question proposed is: ‘Is there some created spiritual substance which is not united to a bod...
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The Pre-Platonic Moment of the Via Platonica: The Theory of Flux and the Deception of the Senses
We shall first present Saint Thomas’ exposition of the pre-Platonic moment and follow it immediately with an examination of Saint Thomas’ critique.
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The Platonic Ideas
The Platonic argumentation which we have been analyzing may be here briefly recapitulated. Plato accepted the consequences of the theory of flux as they affected knowledge. The world of sensible and material r...
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Platonic Participation
It is not the purpose of this chapter to make a thorough study of the term ‘participation’ or of all the theories to which this name has been attached.1 The task here undertaken is much more limited; we intend to...
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The Platonic Doctrine of the Human Soul
One of the areas laid out for investigation in ist study was that of the theory of the soul. We shall, therefore, study this theory in function of the ratio-positio analysis and with attention to its relationship...
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Summary and Conclusions
The general conclusions which emerge from this study are of two kinds. Some are the direct result and the main import of the ordered presentation of the evidence. Such will be the general conclusion concerning...
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Introduction
The material presentation of the texts and their organization under doctrinal heads in the Analytic Index provide a guide in the determination of the importance of different classes of texts. There are some texts...
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Introduction to the Ratio-Positio Analysis of Platonic Doctrines
The examination of the complete body of the texts themselves led to a selection of certain major areas of study. In the light of the principles discovered in the last chapter, we can now define our study of th...
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The Commentary on the Metaphysics: The Platonic Ideas as Ultimate Explicative Principles
The importance of Saint Thomas’ meditations on the Metaphysics of Aristotle has already been stressed and, indeed, the evidence deployed throughout this study constantly reemphasizes the central position, particu...
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Plato’s Theory of Human Cognition
The eighty-fourth question of the first part of the Summa is in many ways a remarkable piece of writing. The entire exposition is terse and tightly ordered and displays doctrinal and structural elements which giv...
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Analytic Index to the Texts
Note: In this Index only those points which, in the texts, are explicitly attributed to Plato or the Platonici are listed. The points are arranged under key terms, phrases or statements. Only two sets of subdivis...
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The Plato and Platonici Texts and Their Sources
Respondeo dicendum, quod, sicut supra dictum est, fruitio ponit quamdam delectationem in fine. Delectatio autem non potest esse nisi in cognoscente: propter quod Plato dixit, quod delectatio est generatio sens...
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The Basic Principles of the Via Platonica
The pre-Platonic moment has laid out certain presuppositions and prepared the historical situation for the Platonic moment itself. When we turn now to an examination of this second stage of analysis, we find S...
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Chapter
Saint Thomas’ Methodology in the Treatment of Positiones
We will begin with the study of a text presented in the fifth article of the Quaestio de Spiritualibus Creaturis. 1 The question proposed is: ‘Is there some created spiritual substance which is not united to a bo...
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Chapter
The Pre-Platonic Moment of the Via Platonica: The Theory of Flux and the Deception of the Senses
We shall first present Saint Thomas’ exposition of the pre-Platonic moment and follow it immediately with an examination of Saint Thomas’ critique.
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Chapter
The Platonic Ideas
The Platonic argumentation which we have been analyzing may be here briefly recapitulated. Plato accepted the consequences of the theory of flux as they affected knowledge. The world of sensible and material r...
