Recognition and Religion A Historical and Systematic Study

eyes andfix them on this radiant light that the angels long to contem- plate.’^80 Presumption is thus the primary epistemic prob ...

vassal. The material and immaterial benefits of this bond consolidate their alliance and enable human attachment to it. God comm ...

Although the nounagnitiois still preferred overrecognitio,^85 both are theologically significant for Aquinas. Let us start with ...

lasting bond with the servant. A similar reciprocal commendation occurs in Thomas’s exposition of the story of the woman sufferi ...

back in the future (Matt. 18:26). For Thomas, this act of the servant commends him in three ways: Now, the humility of this man ...

Although he considers that one develops towards perfection through self-knowledge, not through the knowledge of others,^96 he di ...

The nounrecognitiois not infrequently used by Thomas in the sense of normative acknowledgement. InSumma theologiae, Thomas inter ...

which is the recognition (recognitio) of some kind of excellence; and in respect of the exercise of his government, there is due ...

difference. However, we may observe that for all three scholars the first mode deals with universal law and the second with virt ...

assimilates Augustine and Bernard and shapes the later Franciscan movement in paradigmatic ways. Bonaventure employs the nounrec ...

servant. When a vassal recognizes a benefit, he also commits himself to approve the duties that pertain to the bond. At the same ...

the feudal concept of the bond emerging from the benefit given by the lord in a sense makes all property a sort of tenancy, the ...

observed. This is the case with Marsilio Ficino, one of the best-known writers of the Renaissance. In hisCommentary on Plato’s S ...

through mutual exchange. The existence of the lovers can thus be called radically heteronomous:‘The further each of the two love ...

In one of his letters, Ficino has an almost identical passage.^134 Instead ofrecognosco, he employs the verbagnosco(in amante se ...

reforming it. Then the soul [B] loves that reformed image [ref-imA] as its own work.^137 This is why lovers see the beloved as m ...

necessarily like me.’^141 ‘Likeness of complexion, nourishment, edu- cation, habit, or opinion is the cause of like affection... ...

it can be reflected onto its own act. For, if the intellect is to understand that it now performs the very act of understanding, ...

idea is relatively Augustinian in its emphasis on divine illumination, Ficino’s emphasis on constitutive heteronomy is original. ...

Ficino adheres to a strictly heteronomous and interactive constitution of one’s identity. His view of self-recognition takes som ...