Dificultades que surgen en la comprensión del conocimiento sensible

Abstract

This article reviews the reception in Thomas Aquinas of Aristotle's theory about the nature of sensible knowledge, being an act in which the subject perceives the form divested form its material component. The point of view is that of the act of knowledge itself. The author suggests that a proper and novel disclosure of this aristotelic formula will contribute to establish the essential characters of the act of knowledge, emphasizing its inmaterial nature instead of the peculiar inmutation which gives birth to it in the cognoscente. Following Aquinas, she submits to analysis the act of sensible knowledge not disregarding its organic or bodily context, finding features which —in her view— correspond to all kinds of human knowledge.