Thomas Aquinas And The Traditional Concept Of Truth According To Heidegger, Being And Time, §44
Abstract
The aim of this study is to examine to what extent it is valid to include the thought of Thomas
Aquinas, along with that of Aristotle and Kant, in the philosophical structure that Heidegger calls, in
Being and Time § 44, “traditional concept of truth” (Traditionellen Wahrheitsbegriff). Starting from the
definition of truth as adequacy of the intellect and the thing, is discussed the equivalence between the
Aristotelian concept of ὁμοίωσις, the Thomist of adaequatio, and the Kantian of Übereinstimmung. To
this end, the notion of adaequatio is carefully examined, distinguished from other nearby notions, and
it is shown how the different senses of the adecuacy movement give rise, in turn, to different senses of
truth. It is concluded that there is no equivalence between the concepts of truth of Aristotle, Thomas and
Kant, and is deepens on the notion of ontological truth.
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