Abstract

LAUAND, Jean. Tomás de Aquino: filosofia e pedagogia. Acta Scientiarum. Education [online]. 2012, vol.34, n.01, pp.11-18. ISSN 2178-5201.

This article discusses the connection between philosophy and education in Thomas Aquinas. In his Philosophical Anthropology there are three aspects very important for education today: the affirmation of matter as an essential in human being, the primacy of prudentia over the cardinal virtues and his philosophia negativa (and theologia negativa). The intrinsec union spirit-matter, anima forma corporis has important pedagogical consequences, both in intellectual and in moral education. And it is the basis for his Treatise On Prudence, which presupposes his negative perspective too.

Keywords : Aquinas; Education; Anthropolgy; Spirit and Matter; Negative Philosophy; Prudence.

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