Aquinas on the Nature of the Human Soul: Starting Points in Article 2 of On Spiritual Creatures
While examining how Aquinas defends his account of the human soul in Article 2 of On Spiritual Creatures, I will point out the difficulties that arise in determining the nature of the human soul when the very starting question is formulated in the manner of Article 2's question: "Can a spi...
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| Формат: | Электронный ресурс Статья |
| Язык: | Английский |
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Philosophy Documentation Center
[2017]
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American catholic philosophical quarterly
Год: 2017, Том: 91, Выпуск: 3, Страницы: 391-398 |
| Другие ключевые слова: | B
AVERROES, 1126-1198
B Spirituality B Соул B Avicenna, 980-1037 B THOMAS, Aquinas, Saint, ca. 1225-1274 |
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| Итог: | While examining how Aquinas defends his account of the human soul in Article 2 of On Spiritual Creatures, I will point out the difficulties that arise in determining the nature of the human soul when the very starting question is formulated in the manner of Article 2's question: "Can a spiritual substance be united to a body?" This way of examining the human soul--beginning by considering pure spiritual substantiality and then considering whether it is possible that spiritual substance can relate to a body--reveals an intractable tension which Aquinas would have a difficult time resolving. However, this tension is avoided when the method for discussing the nature of the soul is a bottom-up analysis of the human composite and its operations, which is precisely how Aquinas argues in his Answer. The dialectic between these two different sorts of questioning in Article 2 represents the key opposition between Aquinas's arguments regarding the soul and those of Averroes and Avicenna. |
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| ISSN: | 2153-8441 |
| Второстепенные работы: | Enthalten in: American catholic philosophical quarterly
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5840/acpq201761121 |