| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Resurrection in the Sentences : The 'Truth of Human Nature' -- After Aristotle : Resurrection Idem Numero -- Aquinas on the Human Body : An Outline -- 1. Aristotelian Tradition (I) : Individuality and the Individual Body -- Introduction -- The Basics (I) Body and Soul as 'Proper Matter' and 'Proper Form' -- Substance and Accident -- The Basics (II) Human Generation, the Material Principle, and Necessity in Causation -- Generation of the Individual Body -- Individual Body and the Intellect in De Anima -- Essence and Individuality in the Metaphysics -- Conclusions -- 2. Aristotelian Tradition (II) : Bodily Identity -- Introduction -- Body as a Kind of Quantity -- Growth and Material Exchange -- Corpse -- Substantial Change and Material Continuity -- Aristotle on Substantial Change -- Averroes on Substantial Change and Corporeal Structure -- Corporeal Structure as Incorruptible -- Corporeal Structure as Divisible -- Corporeal Structure and Material Identity -- 'Indeterminate Dimensions' : An Accidental Form Sui Generis -- Conclusions -- 3. Thomas Aquinas (I) : Individuality and the Individual Body -- Introduction -- Substantial Form and Matter in Human Nature -- Essence and Esse -- Human Essence as Composite -- Commensuratio between Individual Soul and Individual Body -- Universals -- Dimensive Quantity : The Body's Accidental Corporeal Form -- Dimensive Quantity and Organic Structure -- The Human Body as Optime Dispositus -- Human Generation, Heredity, the Shaping of Individuals -- Material Developments in Human Generation -- Individual Bodies -- Individual Matter -- Conclusions -- 4. Thomas Aquinas (II) : Bodily Identity -- Introduction -- Material Continuity in the Mortal Body -- Identity of Dimensive Quantity across Growth -- Formal Continuity in the Resurrected Body -- Body's Esse -- Soul and the Body's Formal Identity -- Soul as the Body's Efficient Cause -- Soul as One of Two Essential Principles -- Postmortem Bodily and Material Continuity -- Continuity of the Matter Particular to Individual Bodies -- Christ's Corpse and Saints' Relics -- Conclusions |
| Summary |
Thomas Aquinas asked the essential philosophical question which continues to resound to the modern day: what constitutes a human being? This volume looks at Aquinas's views on bodily and spiritual identity through a lens of theological concerns, pagan and Arabic authoritative sources, and contemporary polemic with dualist heresy |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from home page (Oxford, viewed Apr. 27, 2018) |
| Subject |
Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.
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| SUBJECT |
Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274 fast |
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Christianity -- Philosophy.
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Human body (Philosophy)
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Medieval.
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Christianity -- Philosophy
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Human body (Philosophy)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191833304 |
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0191833304 |
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9780192508232 |
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0192508237 |
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