Question One. Whether God can be naturally known by the intellect of the wayfarerBonaventure, Sent. 1 d.3 q.1 a.1 1. About the third distinction I ask first whether God can be known naturally by the intellect of the wayfarer. 2. That he is not. From Aristotle as follows. On the Soul 3: We understand nothing without phantasms, for just as sensibles are to the senses so intelligibles are to the intellect; but God is not a phantasm because he is not sensible; therefore etc. 3. Again, Metaphysics 2: Our intellect is related to what is most manifest in nature as the eye of the owl to the sun; but there is impossibility here; therefore etc. 4. Again, Physics 1: The infinite qua infinite is unknowable; but God qua God is infinite; therefore etc. 5. Again, Gregory on Ezekiel: However much my mind has advanced in contemplation of God, I have reached not to what he is but to what is beneath him, etc. 6. On the contrary. Metaphysics 6: Science or theology is about God; but the science of metaphysics is naturally attainable; therefore. |