Thomas Aquinas on the Relation Between Cognition and Emotion Christopher A. Bobier SCHOLARLY interpretations of relation between cognition emotion are divided along cognitive noncognitive lines.1 Some scholars think that Thomistic emotions noncognitive, purely conative impulses: “Aquinas’s account emotion,” William Lyons writes, is “in terms impulses or desires, accompanying physiological chang...

Abstract Fragments of manuscripts were constantly used in bindings new books throughout the medieval and early modern periods. Usually, no intellectual connection exists between parchment fragment, stripped to its material function, text book. We argue that a fifteenth-century codex containing Thomas Aquinas’s Summa theologiae, which was bound with Hebrew-Aramaic fragment Talmud Yerushalmi, pre...

This paper discusses the active role of prophet within divine providence, namely her understanding prophetic message and use prophecy. I focus on Aquinas’ account prophecy adopt two methods: phenomenological method that describes experience metaphysical starts from attribute goodness works through order providence. In view, is a personal mission receives to fulfill God’s plan for humankind. inv...

Question 77 of the Summa Theologiae (IIa-IIae) contains the crux of the analysis Thomas Aquinas devotes to the just price 1. The expression itself (justum pretium) however appears only rarely in these passages 2, and a cursory reading might lead one to conclude only too readily that the object of these few pages is to be found elsewhere. In some respects, such a spontaneous reading would be a f...