caa a22 4500 378912917 CHVBK 20180305123546.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e20041109xx s 000 0 eng 10.1515/semi.2004.2004.152-1-4.75 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.1515/semi.2004.2004.152-1-4.75 Deely John 1. Full Professor of Philosophy at the University of St. Thomas, Houston and Executive Director of the Semiotic Society of America The role of Thomas Aquinas in the development of semiotic consciousness [Elektronische Daten] [John Deely] ‘Semiotic consciousness' is the awareness we have of the role and action of signs in the world. This essay examines the role of Thomas Aquinas (1224/5-1274) in the growth of semiotic consciousness among the Latins, as Charles Sanders Peirce will take up the matter in influencing the twentieth-century establishment of semiotics as a global intellectual movement. Although Aquinas never focused on the subject of signs for its own sake, he frequently treats of it in relation to other direct investigations in a great variety of contexts. The result of his treatments is to have left a series of texts which, though not without their inner tensions, contain a series of consequences and connections which can be developed into a unified theory of the being constitutive of signs as a general mode. Precisely this theory was spelled out systematically for the first time in the 1632 Treatise on Signs of John Poinsot, expressly grounded in a pulling together of Aquinas's various texts together with a careful analysis of the role of signs in human experience. The resulting doctrinal perspective proves to have been implicit in Aquinas and to lie at the foundation of Peirce's notion of signs as triadic relations, a notion he took over from the later Latins and developed anew, particularly in shifting the focus from the being to the action proper to signs, or ‘semiosis'. It is this appropriation and shift that marks the boundary between modernity and postmodernism in philosophy, with respect to which the writings of Aquinas are like a taproot. © Walter de Gruyter Literary theory nationallicence Anthropology nationallicence Semiotica Walter de Gruyter 2004/152 - 1/4(2004-11-09), 75-139 0037-1998 2004:152 - 1/4<75 2004 2004 semi https://doi.org/10.1515/semi.2004.2004.152-1-4.75 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1515/semi.2004.2004.152-1-4.75 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Deely John 1. Full Professor of Philosophy at the University of St. Thomas, Houston and Executive Director of the Semiotic Society of America NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Semiotica Walter de Gruyter 2004/152 - 1/4(2004-11-09), 75-139 0037-1998 2004:152 - 1/4<75 2004 2004 semi CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter