El amor a la verdad en Tomás de Aquino / Love for Truth in Thomas Aquinas

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to give an account of Aquinas’s doctrine of moral dimension of pursuit of truth. The article is divided into three sections. First of them deals with the notion of truth in epistemic perspective (judgment and truth). The second one is about truth inasmuch as a certain good and end not only of intellect but of human being. In the third one the consecuences of the previous statements are given. It is about the rol of intellectual and moral virtues in knowledge and in the pursuit of truth. In this final section the main topic of the paper is a central issue: love for truth is need to reach, truth given that virtue is defined as ordo amoris.