Original scientific paper

Intellectualism in Stadler’s Psychology

Dario Škarica ; Institut za filozofiju, Zagreb, Hrvatska ; Filozofski fakultet, Split, Hrvatska

Abstract

In this paper, evidence is collected to support the thesis that Stadler’s neo-Thomist psychology is intellectualist in nature. Most clearly manifested in his faculty psychology, Stadler’s intellectualism is essentially based on the following three principles: first, faculties cannot perform the operations of each other (e. g. senses cannot perform intellective operations, intellect cannot perform volitive operations, will cannot perform cognitive operations, etc.); second, nothing can be desired or willed unless it be foreknown as good (in other words, desire depends on what has already been cognitively grasped as good); third, the cognition of what is good completely precedes desire, and hence cannot be influenced by it (in other words, the cognitive powers of sense and intellect operate fully independently of desire, even when it goes about grasping what is good).

Keywords

Josip Stadler; intellectualism; faculty psychology

Hrčak ID:

118600

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/118600

Publication date:

1.11.2013.

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