God as Highest Truth According to Aquinas

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ID3260216
AuthorsEnrique Martínez (0000-0003-1601-811X, Universitat Abat Oliba CEU, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume12
Issue6
Pages429
Publication date2021-06-09
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueReligions (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444
PublisherMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/rel12060429
OpenAlexW3167677224
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited4

Contemporary public opinion has come to assume that we live in the post-truth era, in which judgments on the most relevant realities of human life have been left in the hands of mere emotions. In such a context, it is very opportune to redirect our gaze toward the concept of truth, in order to help to adequately ground such a primordial reality as that of the personal being. Furthermore, this is the object of the present research, following the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas. To this end, we attempt to argue that the primacy in the analogical significance of the truth corresponds precisely to the person, as a subsistent being whose esse is intelligible to himself. Following the analogical ascent, we consequently arrive at God, who is absolutely intelligible to himself. We have to conclude, therefore, that the personal God is the highest truth. As a corollary to this argument, we add that the perfective dynamism of the personal life is realized in an eminent way in the communication of truth through words, also in God

Common ground · Corollary · Dynamism · Epistemology · Gaze · Linguistics · Lying · Pragmatic theory of truth · Psychoanalysis · Reflexive pronoun · History · Medieval Philosophy and Theology · Philosophy · Psychology · Religious, Philosophical, and Educational Studies · Social Psychology · Theology and Philosophy of Evil

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