Aquinas on mind
by Anthony Kenny · first published 1993
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Aquinas' mature works, though theological in intent, contain much material which is philosophical in the sense that it is not in any way dependent on beliefs which are specifically Christian. His philosophical psychology, or philosophy of mind, was not taken seriously by secular thinkers, with one or two exceptions, from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries because of the dominance of ideas deriving from Descartes. In the present century many philosophers have come to regard the Cartesian system as quite exploded, and it can now be seen that Aquinas' philosophy of mind has a great contemp
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…extraordinary that that accusation should be made by Russell, who in the book Principia Mathematica takes hundreds of pages to prove that two and two make four, which is something he had believed all his life” (Aquinas on Mind, 11). Russell also misunderstands much of Thomas’s project in this quotation. To my knowledge, Thomas never claimed to be doing philosophy (at least not according to the modern understanding of it);…
> Thomas never claimed to be doing philosophy ? "The Summa Contra Gentiles is meant as a philosophical work" Anthony Kenny (Aquinas on Mind, 13) http://people.exeter.ac.uk/sp344/Aquinas%20on%20Mind.pdf