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| Author(s): |
André Botelho Scholz
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2016-10-26 |
| Examining board members: |
Jose Carlos Estevao;
Lessandro Regiani Costa;
Moacyr Ayres Novaes Filho
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| Advisor: | Jose Carlos Estevao |
| Abstract | |
This work aims to make a textual analysis of Peter Abelards Tractatus de Intellectibus, by examining the study on the organization of human affections there presented. In the first chapter we emphasize how Abelard presents an ambivalence of sensitive and imaginative affections that results, simultaneously, in the impossibility of knowing particular things and universal concepts, considering that each sensation or imagination is associated with a particular sense. An attentive potency of the intellect will be opposed to this confusion of sensation, which allows it to take any nature or property and apply to sensations or imaginations and thereafter form intellections. We then focus on the internal organization of the intellect and in Abelards categorization of intellections with a discursive criteria. In this part, our first objective is to determine the range of Abelards proposal which presents a project of de-objectification of the intellect which is not founded in the knowledge of things, but in the souls attention and at the same time circumscribes the intellect to its origin in sensation. To understand this internal movement of the intellect, Abelard employs concepts from grammar and logic, such as the predicate and status, and presents a series of mental procedures, as the predicative connection between intellections and abstraction, which allows the intellect to extrapolate the limits imposed by the origin of human knowledge and formulate concepts to itself, whose validity and veracity will depend on the denudation of attention. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 13/05954-2 - On the intellective process in the 'Tractatus de Intellectibus' of Peter Abelard |
| Grantee: | André Botelho Scholz |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |