Professional paper
https://doi.org/10.34075/sb.62.3.4
COGNITIVE AND APPETITIVE FACULTIES IN THOMAS AQUINAS’ PHILOSOPHICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Maja Poljak
; University of Zadar Department of Philosophy, Zadar, Croatia
Neda Vuković
orcid.org/0000-0002-1707-9603
Abstract
The objective of this article is to offer an overview of a segment of Thomas´ anthropology in which he is researching two kinds of faculties we find in a man: cognitive faculties and faculties of appetite. Cognitive as well as appetitive faculties Thomas divided into rational and sensitive and he differentiates them according to their respective objects and the way they are actualized. The first part of the article is dedicated to the relationship of the soul to its faculties, the question of how the faculties are distinguished amongst themselves and whether the essence of the soul can be reduced to any of its faculties. After that we will place our attention on cognitive faculties which are divided into
sensitive and rational and there we will see why Thomas is dividing these two types of cognition. The final subject is connected to sensitive and rational appetite, their mutual difference, and the fact that a man as a rational being, unlike animal, is a free agent.
Keywords
soul; faculty; act; rational cognition; sensitive cognition; rational appetite; sensitive appetite; freedom
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Publication date:
19.12.2022.
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