02155nam a22003258a 4500 CR9781107337619 UkCbUP 20180107143416.0 m|||||o||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 130207s2013||||enk s ||1 0|eng|d 9781107337619 (ebook) 9781107042926 (hardback) 9781316502334 (paperback) UkCbUP UkCbUP rda B765.T54 C653 2014 126.092 23 Cory, Therese Scarpelli, author. Aquinas on Human Self-Knowledge / [electronic resource] Therese Scarpelli Cory. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013. 1 online resource (254 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). Self-knowledge is commonly thought to have become a topic of serious philosophical inquiry during the early modern period. Already in the thirteenth century, however, the medieval thinker Thomas Aquinas developed a sophisticated theory of self-knowledge, which Therese Scarpelli Cory presents as a project of reconciling the conflicting phenomena of self-opacity and privileged self-access. Situating Aquinas's theory within the mid-thirteenth-century debate and his own maturing thought on human nature, Cory investigates the kinds of self-knowledge that Aquinas describes and the questions they raise. She shows that to a degree remarkable in a medieval thinker, self-knowledge turns out to be central to Aquinas's account of cognition and personhood, and that his theory provides tools for considering intentionality, reflexivity and selfhood. Her engaging account of this neglected aspect of medieval philosophy will interest readers studying Aquinas and the history of medieval philosophy more generally. Self-knowledge, Theory of Print version: 9781107042926 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107337619 Cambridge Books Online 236781 236781