Mercedes Rubio
Core Curriculum Faculty Member (Profesora Dra.) at Villanueva University, Madrid
Research Associate at University of Navarra
Senior Project Manager at the Leonardo Polo Institute of Philosophy
Lecturer, Academic Director at the Polis Institute
Reader of Medieval Latin at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Research Associate at University of Navarra
Senior Project Manager at the Leonardo Polo Institute of Philosophy
Lecturer, Academic Director at the Polis Institute
Reader of Medieval Latin at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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"In what way can we place anthropology as a transcendental knowledge without thereby taking hold of metaphysics, but leaving metaphysics in its proper place? Well, by distinguishing a sense of the transcendental whose study corresponds to metaphysics, and another sense of the transcendental that corresponds to the study of anthropology, not to metaphysics. In other words, there would be transcendentals that we do not discover as such, as transcendentals, unless we study man. The first of these is freedom."
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This in-depth study of Thomas Aquinas' Quaestio de attributis (In I Sent., d.2, q. 1, a.3) binds together the findings of previous research on the unique history of this text by reconstructing the historical circumstances surrounding its composition, shows that the Quaestio contains Aquinas' final answer to the dispute on the divine attributes, and thoroughly examines his interpretation of Maimonides' position on the issue of the knowledge of God by analyzing this and other texts related to it chronologically and from a doctrinal perspective. The examination of the Quaestio reveals the background of Thomas Aquinas' renewed interest in Maimonides' position on the issue and brings to light elements of Aquinas' interpretation that are absent from his earlier references to Maimonides.
The chronological and doctrinal connection of the Quaestio de attributis to other Thomistic works with explicit references to Maimonides enables a reconstruction of his comprehensive approach to Maimonides' teaching on the possibility and extent of the knowledge of God in The Guide of the Perplexed and highlights the place of Maimonides' philosophical teachings in Thomas' own.
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"In what way can we place anthropology as a transcendental knowledge without thereby taking hold of metaphysics, but leaving metaphysics in its proper place? Well, by distinguishing a sense of the transcendental whose study corresponds to metaphysics, and another sense of the transcendental that corresponds to the study of anthropology, not to metaphysics. In other words, there would be transcendentals that we do not discover as such, as transcendentals, unless we study man. The first of these is freedom."
This in-depth study of Thomas Aquinas' Quaestio de attributis (In I Sent., d.2, q. 1, a.3) binds together the findings of previous research on the unique history of this text by reconstructing the historical circumstances surrounding its composition, shows that the Quaestio contains Aquinas' final answer to the dispute on the divine attributes, and thoroughly examines his interpretation of Maimonides' position on the issue of the knowledge of God by analyzing this and other texts related to it chronologically and from a doctrinal perspective. The examination of the Quaestio reveals the background of Thomas Aquinas' renewed interest in Maimonides' position on the issue and brings to light elements of Aquinas' interpretation that are absent from his earlier references to Maimonides.
The chronological and doctrinal connection of the Quaestio de attributis to other Thomistic works with explicit references to Maimonides enables a reconstruction of his comprehensive approach to Maimonides' teaching on the possibility and extent of the knowledge of God in The Guide of the Perplexed and highlights the place of Maimonides' philosophical teachings in Thomas' own.
Lecture delivered at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2015, organized by the Department of Romance and Latin American Studies and Hispania Judaica on the occasion of the publication of the first Hebrew translation of the well-known work of Teresa of Avila "Interior Castle," coinciding with the 500 anniversary of birth of the Spanish mystic.