Professor Rik Van Nieuwenhove's Outputs (2)

Contemplation, Intellectus, and Simplex Intuitus in Aquinas: Recovering a Neoplatonic Theme (2017)
Journal Article
Van Nieuwenhove, R. (2017). Contemplation, Intellectus, and Simplex Intuitus in Aquinas: Recovering a Neoplatonic Theme. American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, 91(2), 199-225. https://doi.org/10.5840/acpq2017227108

This contribution examines two related points in relation to Aquinas’s understanding of contemplation, which is a sorely neglected topic in scholarship. First, after having outlined that the final act of contemplation culminates in an intellective, s... Read More about Contemplation, Intellectus, and Simplex Intuitus in Aquinas: Recovering a Neoplatonic Theme.

"Recipientes per contemplationem, tradentes per actionem": The Relation between the Active and Contemplative Lives according to Thomas Aquinas (2017)
Journal Article
Van Nieuwenhove, R. (2017). "Recipientes per contemplationem, tradentes per actionem": The Relation between the Active and Contemplative Lives according to Thomas Aquinas. The Thomist, 81(1), 1-30. https://doi.org/10.1353/tho.2017.0000