La teoría del concepto de la Edad Media como antecedente de la Edad Moderna

Abstract

Through this work I pretend to show some medieval backgrounds about theories of «concept» wich have appeared in modernity, e. g., Descartes, Berkeley and Kant. After doing an historical running over cognoscitive function of «concept» in thomism and franciscan philosophy, we get to «via moderna» or nominalism, in wich the matter of Knowing prevails over the question of Being. Francisco Suarez has started out the way towards modernity, giving priority to constructive parts of knowledge.