L’oggetto primo e adeguato dell’intelletto. Ludwig Babenstuber, i tomisti dell’età moderna e il principio di cognizione rosminiano

Abstract

The article is aimed to stress the possible influence on Rosmini’s principle of cognition of the german benedectine Ludwig Babenstuber (1660-1726) and some modern Thomists. Its main topic concerns the scholastic distinction between terminative object (being qua being) and motive object of the human intellect (the essence of the material being). This distinction, traced by Scotus and then by a small group of modern Thomists, can also be found in Rosmini’s works.