Adæqvatio : ponto unificante entre veritas rei e veritas intellectvs no pensamento de Tomás de Aquino

Abstract

This Master Thesis seeks to bring the importance of the discussion about transcendentals, present in the philosophical reflection of the Middle Ages, more specifically, during the 13th century. It will be shown that the latter, present in a fertile form in Philip the Chancellor’s Summa de bono and in a gestational way in the works of Alexander of Hales and Albert the Great, came to rise in Thomas Aquinas’ thought – especially in Quaestiones disputatae de veritate, Summa Theologiae, and In quattuor libros Sententiarum – who was able to expand the concepts elaborated by his predecessors in more refined conceptions, among which, this work will focus on the understanding about the verum that demonstrates the adaequatio whilst the most accurate notion for this purpose, having as its scope the unifying point of veritas rei and veritas intellectus. This understanding, finally, will open space for the possibility of bringing some considerations of the way the adaequatio formula can have repercussions on the Thomasian epistemology, as a process – according to which the knowable quidity of res becomes intelligible to the human intellectus –, and whether the latter helps or does not help to understand the adaequatio formula as it belongs to the transcendental verum as additional information about the transcendental ens.