Ideas, Essences, Concepts and Divine Art. Could a Central Aspect of Plato’s Theory of Ideas Be Compatible With a Metaphysics of Aristotelian Learnings?

Abstract

This paper first expounds the Aristotelian conception of universals. Afterwards, it determines (a) that in the metaphysics of the Stagirite there is place for divine Ideas as archetypes, and (b) which are the relations that exist between things and Ideas. It concludes, in the light of the above, with a reconsideration of the Aristotelian critique of Plato’s theory of anamnesis.

Keywords

• Metafísica aristotélica
• Ideas platónicas
• Ideas divinas
• conocimiento sensorial e intelectual
• reminiscencia