The Human Being as ‘Compound’: Aquinas versus Descartes on Human Nature
The intuitively right answer to the question ‘What am I?’ is not ‘an incorporeal spirit’, but ‘a human being’. Aquinas reflects this common-sense view when he says that ‘the human is no mere soul, but a compound of soul and body.’ And Descartes, despite his notorious dualistic thesis that I am a su...
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Institute of Philosophy SAS, v.v.i.
2024-11-01
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| Rochtain ar líne: | https://journals.savba.sk/index.php/filozofia/article/view/3396 |
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