Dos modos del método escolástico en Tomás de Aquino / Two Ways of the Scholastic Method in Thomas Aquinas

Abstract

Thomas Aquinas is rightly considered as one of the best exponents of the scholastic method´s ri - gorous application, with regard to the disputing form (the quaestio) as well as the systematic organization of the theoretical material. But Thomas´ work also includes his important comments, especially upon Aristotles´s, which are an important part of his philosophical and theological work. Therefore the expositive method is quite various and deserves a specific analysis. In the article two examples of both ways of his theoretical productions´ method are taken: the summa and the expositio, having in hand the Summa contra Gentes and Expositio in Octo Libros Physicorum Aristotelis. It´s intended to show the structural lines of two different forms and eventually complementary: the derivative way and the analytic way, respectively, and also in what sense they are integrated in the disputative method.