Il problema dell'unità dell'intelletto agli inizi del XIV secolo. Guglielmo di Pietro di Godino in difesa della noetica tommasiana

The Lectura Thomasina of William of Peter of Godin († 1336) typifies the transmission of Thomas Aquinas’ thought in the Dominican theological schools between the end of the 13th century and the first decades of the 14th century. By combining the typical structure of a commentary on the Sentences with a long series of quotations from Aquinas’ writings, Godin composes an original teaching compendium (still unpublished), which offered a key to understanding the first diffusion and assimilation of certain disputed Thomistic doctrines. Through an in-depth analysis of the question Utrum omnium hominum sit unus intellectus possibilis (II, dist. 16, q. 1), the present study aims to provide a very representative example of this working strategy, by exploring Godin’s reworking of Aquinas’ noetic and consequently its influence on the Parisian wide-ranging discussions on the unity of the intellect at the beginning of the 14th century.