- Hardcover: 617 pages
- Publisher: University of California Press; 1 edition (Jan 16 2004)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0520042522
- ISBN-13: 978-0520042520
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This is a corrected second impression of the original bilingual critical edition of Poinsot’s work on signs completed in 1632. New materials include a new “Foreword” by the translator and a full table of correlations between the independent Tractatus edition and the original Cursus Philo-sophicus from which that edition was established.
The Cursus Philosophicus was one of the two great syntheses of Latin thought made in the lifetime of Descartes. Yet only that of Francis Suarez in 1597, the Disputationes Metaphysicae, was destined to be read by the early moderns.
This is a work of immense erudition that synthesizes the matter of signs philosophy from Aristotle and his successors in Greece and Rome to the pre-eminent St. Thomas Aquinas in the Middle Ages and so on through the leading schools of Renaissance thought.
Poinsot was instrumental in the twentieth-century revival of Thomism led by Jacques Maritain. His seminal Introduction to the Summa Theologiae of Thomas Aquinas (St. Augustine’s Press, 2004)
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The Cursus Philosophicus was one of the two great syntheses of Latin thought made in the lifetime of Descartes. Yet only that of Francis Suarez in 1597, the Disputationes Metaphysicae, was destined to be read by the early moderns.
This is a work of immense erudition that synthesizes the matter of signs philosophy from Aristotle and his successors in Greece and Rome to the pre-eminent St. Thomas Aquinas in the Middle Ages and so on through the leading schools of Renaissance thought.
Poinsot was instrumental in the twentieth-century revival of Thomism led by Jacques Maritain. His seminal Introduction to the Summa Theologiae of Thomas Aquinas (St. Augustine’s Press, 2004)
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For Thomists and semioticians, Oct 28 2002
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This review is from: Tractatus De Signis (Hardcover)
Dr. John Deely has effectively served the philosophical community by bringing to light a profound text by John Poinsot (1589-1644).Poinsot, a Spanish logician and Dominican friar, argues the following: "Every relation has a subject, a fundament and a terminus" (page 88/ line 9). There are two kinds of relations. 1. A "real relation" is an existing thing with an essence that is "the relation itself" (90/7); 2. An "expressed relation" is an "absolute" thing "upon which a relation follows" (90/6-8).
The fundament of a real relation stimulates the cognitive powers (125/36) of men and brute animals. There are two kinds of fundaments. 1. A "mind-independent" fundament brings about a real relation. 2. A "mind-depedent" fundament brings about an "expressed relation." Poinsot writes, "The whole difference... comes down to this... a physical relation has a mind-independent fundament... while a mental relation lacks such a fundament" (91/26).
Curiosly, a relation is the only feature that may belong to an existing thing in the physical environment and to an existing thing in the intellectual environment. Poinsot writes, "A relation... and a being-toward... is indifferent to the exercise of a mind-independent or a mind-dependent act of existence" (94/ 40). In other words, a "mind-dependent relation is a true relation" (95/ 39).
Because a concept is a real relation in which another existing thing is known immediately, directly and spontaneously by the agent of the concept and the agent intellect. The connection between a human person and his environment is real, direct, immediate and a caused by a "true relation."
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