Razones teológico-metafísicas del realismo aristotélico medieval

Abstract

The introduction of the Aristotelian corpus into the medieval Christian world during the XII and XIII centuries contributed notably to the vindication of the value of sensible data as a means to achieve intelligible knowledge. Indeed, the Platonism which the first Christian thinkers were familiar with, denied that the sensible could give way to true knowledge. However, this meant, at the same time, that sensible things did not have sufficient ontological consistency. And since Christianity taught the dignity of all that was created, Aristotelian philosophy provided it with a conception of the sensible much closer to its own principles. However, this confidence in concrete reality as an object even of intelligible knowledge ceased to exist towards the end of the Middles Ages and with it, the gnoseological realism characteristic of medieval Christian thought.