Education as the Art of Becoming Oneself in a Globalized World: An Educational Emergency

«Si autem modus entis accipiatur... secundum convenientiam unius entis ad aliud, hoc quidem non potest esse nisi accipiatur aliquid quod natum sit convenire cum omni ente: hoc autem est anima, quae ‘quodammodo est omnia’ (De An. 431 b 31). In anima autem est vis cognitiva et appetitiva. Convenientiam ergo entis ad appetitum exprimit bonum;... ad intellectum exprimit verum. If the mode of being is taken...the division is based on the correspondence one being has with another. This is possible only if there is something which is such that it agrees with every being. Such a being is the soul, which, as is said in (De An. 431 b 31) “in some ways is all things”. The soul, however, has both knowing and appetitive powers. Good expresses the correspondence of being to the appetitive potency; ... True expresses the correspondence of being to the knowing capability» (St Thomas, De Ver. I, 1)