Title | Levels of human thinking in Philoponus |
Type | Book Section |
Language | English |
Date | 1985 |
Published in | After Chalcedon. Studies in Theology and Church History. Offered to Professor Albert van Roey for his seventieth birthday |
Pages | 451-470 |
Categories | no categories |
Author(s) | Verbeke, Gérard |
Editor(s) | Laga, Carl , Munitiz, Joseph A. , Rompay, Lucas van |
Translator(s) |
What is finally the meaning of Philoponus’s teaching on the levels of thought? Taking into account the previous considerations, we may conclude that this doctrine is intended to disclose the true nature of philosophical reflection as a direct and immediate intuition of the intelligible world. This disclosure is an internal one: each individual bears within himself, in the hidden abodes of his consciousness, a treasure of philosophical wisdom". In order to contemplate the highest truth, man should not leave himself, on the contrary he should come back and turn to himself, to his true self. Most people live outside themselves in a permanent forgetfulness of their real nature: they hardly participate in philosophical wisdom, they only possess some common intuitions, which are a kind of trace or vestige of rational truth. They never come to the level of a direct contemplation of the intelligibles. In order to reach the supreme level of thinking man needs a moral preparation, which makes him able to overcome the influence of irrational movements; he also needs an intellectual training by means of discursive reasoning in order to free himself from the impact of senses and imagination. If these requirements are fulfilled, man be comes able to contemplate directly true reality in the internal world of his consciousness. [conclusion, p. 469] |
Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/OTSRLjO9Pls5pEs |
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Title | Levels of human thinking in Philoponus |
Type | Book Section |
Language | English |
Date | 1985 |
Published in | After Chalcedon. Studies in Theology and Church History. Offered to Professor Albert van Roey for his seventieth birthday |
Pages | 451-470 |
Categories | no categories |
Author(s) | Verbeke, Gérard |
Editor(s) | Laga, Carl , Munitiz, Joseph A. , Rompay, Lucas van |
Translator(s) |
What is finally the meaning of Philoponus’s teaching on the levels of thought? Taking into account the previous considerations, we may conclude that this doctrine is intended to disclose the true nature of philosophical reflection as a direct and immediate intuition of the intelligible world. This disclosure is an internal one: each individual bears within himself, in the hidden abodes of his consciousness, a treasure of philosophical wisdom". In order to contemplate the highest truth, man should not leave himself, on the contrary he should come back and turn to himself, to his true self. Most people live outside themselves in a permanent forgetfulness of their real nature: they hardly participate in philosophical wisdom, they only possess some common intuitions, which are a kind of trace or vestige of rational truth. They never come to the level of a direct contemplation of the intelligibles. In order to reach the supreme level of thinking man needs a moral preparation, which makes him able to overcome the influence of irrational movements; he also needs an intellectual training by means of discursive reasoning in order to free himself from the impact of senses and imagination. If these requirements are fulfilled, man be comes able to contemplate directly true reality in the internal world of his consciousness. [conclusion, p. 469] |
Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/OTSRLjO9Pls5pEs |
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