Aquinas’ Science of Sacra Doctrina as a Platonic Technê



• Aquinas’ Science of Sacra Doctrina as a Platonic Technê

  Item Type	Journal Article
  Author	Ryan Miller
  Abstract	Aquinas’s characterization of Sacra Doctrina has received sustained engagement addressing its relation to contemporary conceptions of theology and Aristotelian conceptions of science. More recently, attention has been paid to Aquinas’s neo-Platonist influences, and the way they lead him to subvert purely Aristotelian categories. I therefore combine these themes by introducing the first study of whether sacra doctrina counts as a technê in Plato’s sense. After examining how Platonic technê relate to their ergon. epistasthai, gignôskein, and epistêmê and examining sacra doctrina’s relationship to each of these Platonic categories, I suggest that Sacra Doctrina is an unqualified Platonic technê.
  Date	2023
  Language	English
  Rights	© 2023 Aletheia - Associação Científica e Cultural
  Volume	79
  Pages	633-656
  Publication	Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia
  DOI	10.17990/RPF/2023_79_1_0633
  Issue	1-2
  ISSN	0870-5283 ; 2183-461X
  Date Added	31/07/2023, 7:22:03 PM
  Modified	31/07/2023, 9:44:06 PM

  Tags:

  • Aquinas, philosophy of religion, Plato, sacra doctrina, technê.

  Notes:

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