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Aquinas And Descartes View Of Knowledge

Knowledge
Aquinas and Descartes have different ideas on how humans gain knowledge in the world. Both philosophers need to define what the human body is composed of in order to determine how we gain knowledge.
For Aquinas intellect comes from the soul and the body working in unison. The soul is the substantial form of a living material thing. It is the actuality of a living material substance. Even though the rational soul is what differentiates humans from other living things, it does not make us human beings. Aquinas writes that "we could maintain this if we were to suppose that the activities of sensory souls are proper to such souls apart from bodies." (Aquinas 62) Aquinas is saying that we would be able to say that the human soul is the human being, if our souls were able to sense without using our bodies. The soul and body together allow us to sense, learn (through our senses), and feel emotions. The previous theory of learning comes from Meno. Socrates says that......


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