Aquinas on the Role of Another in Perfect Self‐Knowledge.

Aquinas is clear that human intellect can only know itself through knowing others. Yet he seems to treat this need for others as a mark of imperfection: both angels and God can know themselves through themselves, and their intellects seem therefore to be more perfect than ours. In this article, howe...

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Publicado en:Modern Theology Vol. 38; no. 1; pp. 19 - 36
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Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Jan2022
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