The Problem of Intellective Memory in Aquinas
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This work aims to a presentation on the thomistic treatment of memory and its different modalities in the fields of sensibility, intellect and the separate soul. A motif circulates all along this presentation and it is presented as a problematic hypothesis: Is there a memory of intellective knowledge? The problem arises when one contrasts the state of the separate soul with respect to the acquired knowledge in the «present state of life». Could the soul retain, remember and actualize that acquired knowledge in the «present state of life», as a separate soul, after man's death? An ambiguity in memory status when the soul passes from the «present state of life» to the life as a separate soul, will be found as a conclusion, emphasizing the consequences derived for a consideration of the thomistic anthropology and metaphysics.
memory, faculties of the soul, anthropology, thomism, medieval philosophymemoria, potencias del alma, antropología, tomismo, filosofía medieval