Bonaventura e il principio d’individuazione. Una possibile interpretazione

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RIVISTA DI FILOSOFIA NEO-SCOLASTICA

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RIVISTA DI FILOSOFIA NEO-SCOLASTICA - 2017 - 4. Il pensiero filosofico e teologico in Bonaventura da Bagnoregio

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Bonaventura e il principio d’individuazione. Una possibile interpretazione

Autore

Francesco Binotto

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Vita e Pensiero

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03-2018

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http://filosofianeoscolastica.vitaepensiero.com/doi/10.26350/001050_000024

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0035-6247 (stampa) | 1827-7926 (digitale)

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In this paper I shall discuss Bonaventure’s issue about the principle of individuation, focusing on distinction 3 of Commentarius in secundum librum Sententiarum. First of all, I will offer a double formulation of the problem of individuation: it was thought as the problem of numerical distinction of a specific essence. Secondly, I will focus my attention on Bonaventure’s statement about individuation: according to the theologian, the individuation is the result of the actual conjunction of matter and form. However this does not represent a proper answer to the traditional problem of individuation. The Franciscan thinker’s purpose is to offer a reconsideration of the meaning of ‘individuation’, which means ‘substantiality’: the numerical difference is a mere consequence, an accidental property, of the mutual appropriation of the substantial principles, namely matter and form. For that reason I will conclude that, from Bonaventure’s perspective, the problem of numerical distinction is a really pseudo-problem.