Thomas Aquinas On The Immateriality Of The Human Intellect

Author : Adam Wood (Assistant Professor of Philosophy)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813232577
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thomas Aquinas on the Immateriality of the Human Intellect written by Adam Wood (Assistant Professor of Philosophy) and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The author offers a comprehensive interpretation of Aquinas's claim that the human intellect is immaterial and assessment of his arguments on behalf of this claim, also positioning Aquinas's thought alongside recent work in hylomorphic metaphysics and philosophy of mind"--

Author : Adam Wood
Publisher : Catholic University of America Press
ISBN 13 : 0813232562
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thomas Aquinas on the Immateriality of the Human Intellect written by Adam Wood and published by Catholic University of America Press. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Sir Anthony Kenny
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134829752
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aquinas on Mind written by Sir Anthony Kenny and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-03 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how the mature writings of Thomas Aquinas though written in the thirteenth century have much to offer the human mind and the relationship between intellect and will, body and soul.

Author : H. D. Gardeil
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1608991245
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Introduction to the Philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas, Volume 3 written by H. D. Gardeil and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2009-11-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Indispensable to a technical knowledge of the workings of God in the soul is a scientific grasp of human nature. In an admirably clear and concise form such an exposition of psychology has been provided for us by Father Gardeil . . .Writing his book around a judicious selection of texts from all the works of St. Thomas, and following the order of the De Anima of Aristotle, Father Gardeil supplies us with a volume which fits as easily into the hands of the natural scientist as into the hands of the theologian."--Cross and Crown"Briefly, this volume is an excellent contribution to a modern field of intellectual thought which direly needs the illumination and guidance of the Doctor Communis . . . Beyond a doubt, this volume is a 'must' for all Catholic philosophy teachers."--Dominicana

Author : Robert Pasnau
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521001892
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thomas Aquinas on Human Nature written by Robert Pasnau and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major new study of Aquinas and his central project: the understanding of human nature.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004413030
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medieval Perceptual Puzzles written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval Perceptual Puzzles: Theories of Sense Perception in the 13th and 14th Centuries is an anthology of texts offering an in-depth analysis of Latin medieval theories of sense-perception. The volume offers historical and systematic approaches to themes and questions that have shaped the medieval accounts of sense-perception.

Author : Paul T. Durbin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521029201
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Summa Theologiae: Volume 12, Human Intelligence written by Paul T. Durbin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-10-26 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paperback reissue of one volume of the English Dominicans' Latin/English edition of Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologiae.

Author : Brian Kemple
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004352562
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ens Primum Cognitum in Thomas Aquinas and the Tradition written by Brian Kemple and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-08-21 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Ens Primum Cognitum, Brian Kemple examines the meaning of Thomas Aquinas’ claim that “being” is the first object of the intellect and proposes an interpretation with dramatic consequences for Thomistic epistemology and metaphysics.

Author : Thomas Aquinas
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 160384676X
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Treatise on Human Nature written by Thomas Aquinas and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2002-11-15 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Thomas Aquinas
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603840745
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Summary of Philosophy written by Thomas Aquinas and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2003-03-15 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compact collection of philosophical texts from the Summa Theologica--on God, creation, the soul, human acts, moral good and evil, love, habits, virtue, and law--is presented newly translated in abridged form and cast in a modified version of the medieval quaestio. Included are only the most important objections and Aquinas’ replies; appeals to scriptural, theological, and philosophical authorities have been omitted. Unlike the ordering of the originals, questions and answers are here presented prior to objections and replies; the result is a sharp, rich, topically organized question-answer presentation of Aquinas' major philosophical arguments within a brief compass. A general Introduction, headnotes, a glossary, an index, and a select bibliography offer expert guidance to the work of this major philosopher.