TIAGO GRANDE

Course
Master's degree
Research title
The theory of abstraction according to Thomas Aquinas in Super Boetium De Trinitate, question 5.
Research abstract

This dissertation deals with the role of abstraction in speculative sciences as exposed mainly in the 5th question of Thomas Aquinas’s Super Boetium De Trinitate. For this purpose, the chapters of this dissertation will follow the four articles that make up the question showing how Aquinas distinguishes different operations of the intellect and ways of abstraction while considering the way of proceeding of the three parts of the speculative sciences: mathematics, physics, and metaphysics.

 

Keywords: Abstraction; Separation; Speculative Sciences; Intellect; Thomas Aquinas.

Graduate Advisor
Carlos Eduardo de Oliveira
Funding
CNPq
Date of defense
30/09/2022