Rodrigo de Arriaga (1592–1667) and Bartolomeo Mastri (1602–1673)/Bonaventura Belluto (1600–1676) on Animal Perception of Negations

Abstract

This study presents Rodrigo de Arriaga’s “exotic” theory of the animal perception of negations, such as shadows and holes, as presented in the De anima part of his Cursus philosophicus (first edition 1632). According to Arriaga, God supplies these creatures with sensible species representing these negative items. Against the background of what can be called the standard view on this subject, the paper shows how this theory was criticized by two foremost Italian Baroque Scotists, the Franciscans Bartolomeo Mastri and Bonaventura Belluto, in their In De anima (first edition 1643) of their Philosophiae ad mentem Scoti cursus integer.

Keywords: perception; negations; sensible species; agent sense; Arriaga; Mastri; Belluto.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21747/21836884/med41a32