The Function of the Phantasm in St. Thomas Aquinas - Couverture souple

Carr, Henry

9781178370560: The Function of the Phantasm in St. Thomas Aquinas

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Editeur : Nabu Press, 2010

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Offprint from Philosophical Essays Presented to John Watson THE FUNCTION OF THE PHANTASM IN ST. THOMAS AQUINAS. The task that I put myself to work at was to try to find out what connexion there is between the intellect and the phantasm in the philosophy of St. Thomas A quinas. What started me on this line of thought was that I could not see how we could have sensible phantasms for such ideas as unity, being, causality and the like. I used to be under the impression that according to scholasticism we derived our ideas from sense representations and once in possession of these ideas, which were purely intellectual, there was no further use intellectually for the phantasm. My problem then was, how can I have a sensible impression of the idea of being, or any of the other ideas like it. As I went into this subject, I found that my interpretation of the expression in Aristotle and St. Thomas, No idea without a phantasm ,was wrong. I found it was not only true that there is no idea without a corresponding phantasm, but that furthermore the corresponding phantasm must always accompany the idea in consciousness. Whenever we are conscious of an idea, a sensible representation of that idea must be present also in consciousness. Why is this so? This is the question that naturally arises and it seemed to me worth while to try to find out what Aristotle sgreatest interpreter hold on this point. Within the narrow limits of this paper is compressed a short survey of a large field.
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