PHIL 1000 Study Guide - Final Guide: Unmoved Mover, General Revelation, Active Intellect
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Born in italy, went to a monastery, attended university of naples. What he knows is through faith and reason. Truth comes through natural revelation and supernatural revelation. Believed that human nature and god were complementary. Uses causes to prove that god exists. God is moving humans to achieve final actualization. Everything must have a first cause- everything has a first mover. External, optimist, god is meaning / end of life (telos) Aquinas thought that, though the highest knowledge humans can possess is knowledge of god, knowledge of physical objects is better suited to human capabilities. Knowledge is obtained when the active intellect abstracts a concept from the senses. From the image of a dog, for example, the intellect abstracts the ideas of being alive, being capable of reproduction and movement, and whatever else might be essential to being a dog.
