“But truly the two knowledge types are a false dichotomy....”
Spirited: BroJoeK’s claim is based in lack of comprehension.
Dom Bruno Webb, O.S.B. was a monk of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Mary and St. Peter in Prinknash, Gloucestershire. Bruno was thoroughly familiar with Aquinas. In his book, “Why Does God Permit Evil?” (1940) Bruno explains the two interfacing faculties of the mind:
“By reflection, we mean this: in every act of consciousness, two perfectly distinct faculties of the mind come into play: there is our understanding or intellect, which is a purely spiritual or immaterial faculty, and there is our sense faculty producing the sense-images of vision, sound, touch, and so on, and emotional feeling. These two faculties, although quite distinct, never act independently of each other; they cooperate in closest union. Whenever, therefore, any disorder takes place in our senses, whether this be an emotion, such as fear.....or mere feeling, such as an injury received in some part of our body, our understanding is always there to “see” that disorder. In animals, this is not so, since they possess no understanding.” (Bruno, p. 32)
spirited irish: "BroJoeK’s claim is based in lack of comprehension."
spirited irish quoting Dom Bruno Webb:
So, like Aquinas, Webb acknowledges "two faculties" while claiming they do not conflict.
But in historical fact: they sometimes did, and do.