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Thomas Aquinas on Human Nature

Thomas Aquinas on Human Nature
Author: Robert Pasnau
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 516
Release: 2002
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780521001892

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A major new study of Aquinas and his central project: the understanding of human nature.


On Human Nature

On Human Nature
Author: Thomas Aquinas
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Total Pages: 302
Release: 1999-01-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780872204546

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Indeholder Thomas Aquinas kommentarer til Aristoteles: De anima og hans egen Summa theologica


The Treatise on Human Nature

The Treatise on Human Nature
Author: St. Thomas Aquinas
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Total Pages: 460
Release: 2002-01-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780872206137

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This series offers central philosophical treatises of Aquinas in new, state-of-the-art translations distinguished by their accuracy and use of clear and non-technical modern vocabulary. Annotation and commentary accessible to undergraduates make the series an ideal vehicle for the study of Aquinas by readers approaching him from a variety of backgrounds and interests.


The Nature of Human Persons

The Nature of Human Persons
Author: Jason T. Eberl
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess
Total Pages: 545
Release: 2020-06-25
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0268107750

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Is there a shared nature common to all human beings? What essential qualities might define this nature? These questions are among the most widely discussed topics in the history of philosophy and remain subjects of perennial interest and controversy. The Nature of Human Persons offers a metaphysical investigation of the composition of the human essence. For a human being to exist, does it require an immaterial mind, a physical body, a functioning brain, a soul? Jason Eberl also considers the criterion of identity for a developing human being—that is, what is required for a human being to continue existing as a person despite undergoing physical and psychological changes over time? Eberl's investigation presents and defends a theoretical perspective from the thirteenth-century philosopher and theologian Thomas Aquinas. Advancing beyond descriptive historical analysis, this book places Aquinas’s account of human nature into direct comparison with several prominent contemporary theories: substance dualism, emergentism, animalism, constitutionalism, four-dimensionalism, and embodied mind theory. These theories inform various conclusions regarding when human beings first come into existence—at conception, during gestation, or after birth—and how we ought to define death for human beings. Finally, each of these viewpoints offers a distinctive rationale as to whether, and if so how, human beings may survive death. Ultimately, Eberl argues that the Thomistic account of human nature addresses the matters of human nature and survival in a much more holistic and desirable way than the other theories and offers a cohesive portrait of one’s continued existence from conception through life to death and beyond.


Treatise on Human Nature

Treatise on Human Nature
Author: Saint Thomas (Aquinas)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9781587318818

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"This is the only free-standing English translation of the entire Treatise on human nature, which includes St. Thomas's account of the metaphysical status of the human soul and its relation to the human organism (Questions 75-77); the powers of the soul, especially the higher intellective powers that distinguish humans from other animals (Questions 78-89); and, those questions on human origins, the creation of the first man and first woman, and their status as being created in the image of God (Questions 90-102)."--Cover, p. 1.


Aquinas on Human Self-Knowledge

Aquinas on Human Self-Knowledge
Author: Therese Scarpelli Cory
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2014
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107042925

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A study of Aquinas's theory of self-knowledge, situated within the mid-thirteenth-century debate and his own maturing thought on human nature.


Human Action in Thomas Aquinas, John Duns Scotus, and William of Ockham

Human Action in Thomas Aquinas, John Duns Scotus, and William of Ockham
Author: Thomas Michael Osborne
Publisher: CUA Press
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2014
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0813221781

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This book sets out a thematic presentation of human action, especially as it relates to morality, in the three most significant figures in Medieval Scholastic thought: Thomas Aquinas, John Duns Scotus, and William of Ockham


Aquinas on the Beginning and End of Human Life

Aquinas on the Beginning and End of Human Life
Author: Fabrizio Amerini
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2013-06-10
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0674073460

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In contemporary discussions of abortion, both sides argue well-worn positions, particularly concerning the question, When does human life begin? Though often invoked by the Catholic Church for support, Thomas Aquinas in fact held that human life begins after conception, not at the moment of union. But his overall thinking on questions of how humans come into being, and cease to be, is more subtle than either side in this polarized debate imagines. Fabrizio Amerini—an internationally-renowned scholar of medieval philosophy—does justice to Aquinas’ views on these controversial issues. Some pro-life proponents hold that Aquinas’ position is simply due to faulty biological knowledge, and if he knew what we know today about embryology, he would agree that human life begins at conception. Others argue that nothing Aquinas could learn from modern biology would have changed his mind. Amerini follows the twists and turns of Aquinas’ thinking to reach a nuanced and detailed solution in the final chapters that will unsettle familiar assumptions and arguments. Systematically examining all the pertinent texts and placing each in historical context, Amerini provides an accurate reconstruction of Aquinas’ account of the beginning and end of human life and assesses its bioethical implications for today. This major contribution is available to an English-speaking audience through translation by Mark Henninger, himself a noted scholar of medieval philosophy.


The Treatise on Human Nature

The Treatise on Human Nature
Author: Thomas Aquinas
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Total Pages: 458
Release: 2002-11-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 160384676X

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This series offers central philosophical treatises of Aquinas in new, state-of-the-art translations distinguished by their accuracy and use of clear and nontechnical modern vocabulary. Annotation and commentary accessible to undergraduates make the series an ideal vehicle for the study of Aquinas by readers approaching him from a variety of backgrounds and interests.


Thomas Aquinas on the Immateriality of the Human Intellect

Thomas Aquinas on the Immateriality of the Human Intellect
Author: Adam Wood
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2019-12-06
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0813232562

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The chief aims of Thomas Aquinas on the Immateriality of the Human Intellect are to provide a comprehensive interpretation of Aquinas's oft-repeated claim that the human intellect is immaterial, and to assess his arguments on behalf of this claim. Adam Wood argues that Aquinas's claim refers primarily to the mode in which the human intellect has its act of being. That the human intellect has an immaterial mode of being, however, crucially underwrites Aquinas's additional views that the human soul is subsistent and incorruptible. To show how it does so, Wood argues that the human intellect's immateriality can also be put in terms of the impossibility of explaining its operations in terms of coordination between bodily parts, states and processes. Aquinas's arguments for the human intellect's immateriality, therefore, can be understood as attempts to show why intellectual operations cannot be explained in bodily terms. The book argues that not all of them succeed in this aim and also proposes, however, a novel interpretation of Aquinas's argument based on human intellect's universal mode of cognition that may indeed be sound. Wood concludes by considering the ramifications of Aquinas's position on matters pertaining to the afterlife. Thomas Aquinas on the Immateriality of the Human Intellect represents the first book-length examination of Aquinas's claim that the human intellect is immaterial, and so — given the centrality of this claim to his thought — should interest any scholars interested in understanding Thomas. While it focuses throughout on careful attention to Aquinas's texts along with the relevant secondary literature, it also positions Thomas's thought alongside recent developments in metaphysics and philosophy of mind. Hence it should also interest historically-minded metaphysicians interested in understanding how Thomas's hylomorphism intersects with recent work in hylomorphic metaphysics, philosophers of mind interested in understanding how Thomas's philosophical psychology relates to contemporary forms of dualism, physicalism and emergentism, and philosophers of religion interested in the possibility of the resurrection.