The Double Origin of Nominalism in the Middle Ages from the Point of View of José Luis Romero
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José Luis Romero, Nominalism, Bourgeois Mentality, Problem of Universals, Peter AbelardAbstract
The division of causes in Aquinas’ De principiis naturae 5 establishes how the four classical Aristotelian causes may be divided. The text presents several difficulties, the most important of which are the number of divisions and the not-necessary contemporaneity of the being in potency of a cause and its effect. We aim to resolve these difficulties through a detailed analysis of the Latin text, resulting in a complete commentary on the chapter, which is a secondary contribution. Through this analysis, we resolve the main difficulties. First, by discovering a tacit distinction between the divisions of causes as considered in themselves and as known and verbalized by human beings, the number of the divisions is finally seven (four belonging to the being of causes and three to their knowledge). This distinction has a linguistic sign in the expressions ‘item’ and ‘sciendum est quod’. Secondly, the fact that it is not necessary for a cause and its caused to be simultaneously in potency, can be justified in the case of the singular predication if we consider that an architect, once the house is built, is still in potency of rebuilding that same house, if ever it lost the internal causes of its integrity.
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