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Aquinas on the Role of Another in Perfect Self-Knowledge
Modern Theology Pub Date : 2021-06-10 , DOI: 10.1111/moth.12726
Michael Joseph Higgins 1
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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, however, I focus first on Thomas’s teaching on angels’ morning and evening knowledge, where he suggests that angels only know themselves perfectly if they know themselves in Another. Second, I turn to his theology of the Word, where he suggests that the Father only ever knows Himself in knowing another Person. By exploring these areas of Thomas’s thought, I argue that to know oneself perfectly is to know oneself in another.

中文翻译:

阿奎那关于另一个人在完美自我认识中的作用

阿奎那很清楚,人类的智力只能通过了解他人来了解自己。然而,他似乎将这种对他人的需要视为不完美的标志:天使和上帝都可以通过自己了解自己,因此他们的智力似乎比我们的更完美。然而,在这篇文章中,我首先关注托马斯关于天使早晚知识的教导,他建议天使只有在另一个人中了解自己,才能完全了解自己。其次,我转向他的圣经神学,他认为天父只有在认识另一个位格时才认识他自己。通过探索托马斯思想的这些领域,我认为完美地认识自己就是在另一个人中认识自己。
更新日期:2021-06-10
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