El modelo aristotélico de comprensión de los fenómenos cognoscitivos y su recepción medieval

Abstract

Our purpose is to analyse some features of the Aristotelian model of the cognitive phenomena which can be considered as proper of an intentional concept of the mind: (i) a common or parallel structure to analyse sense perception and intellectual cognition; (ii) the categorization of the mental affairs under the notion of relatives or relation; (iii) the ambiguous characterization of cognition as a relation of identity or similarity between the knower and what is known. The Aristotelian model shows both similarities and differences with regard to the classical notion of intentionality defined by Brentano. Because of a variety of reasons, the medieval scholastic model of mind seems to be in a middle term between both the Aristotelian and the Brentanian one.