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Document Details : Title: L'objet comme cause sine qua non de la connaissance selon Pierre Roger Author(s): CÔTÉ, Antoine Journal: Recherches de Théologie et Philosophie Médiévales Volume: 91 Issue: 1 Date: 2024 Pages: 195-228 DOI: 10.2143/RTPM.91.1.3293234 Abstract : In two of his unedited quodlibetal questions – one of which deals with the relation between the intellect and the phantasms, the other with the relation between the intellect and the intelligible species – the Benedictine Pierre Roger (1291-1352) criticizes Godfrey of Fontaines’s theory of knowledge. According to Godfrey, the object is the efficient cause of the cognitive act, the role of the agent intellect being to release the intelligible content concealed in the phantasm for ‘reception’ in the possible intellect. Pierre Roger rejects such a theory in favor of a resolutely activist conception of the production of the intellective act. Indeed, for him, the efficient cause of the intellect’s acts of knowledge is the intellect itself, spontaneously turning towards the objects of the world that it apprehends in their singularity as well as in their universal aspects; the extramental object or its sensory or imaginal representation is thus relegated to the status of a sine qua non cause. |
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