Hewitt, S orcid.org/0000-0003-2720-4428 (2023) Aquinas on the Immortality of the Soul: Some Reflections. The Heythrop Journal, 64 (1). pp. 30-45. ISSN 0018-1196
Abstract
Aquinas's thoughts about the human soul present us with a puzzle. On the one hand, Thomas has been applauded within the analytic tradition as an anti-dualistic thinker, who emphasises the animal nature of human beings and denies that there could be disembodied human persons. Yet on the other hand he holds, as a faithful Catholic theologian, that the human soul survives death, and maintains that the post-mortem soul, prior to its reunification with the body is the subject of characteristically personal intellectual activities. This paper reviews the state of the debate regarding whether these commitments of Aquinas's can be reconciled, and concludes that they cannot in his own terms. However, a recognisably thomist approach to the post-mortem survival of the soul is available, proceeding on the basis that to be rationally ensouled is to have a life-story.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2022 The Author. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science (Leeds) > School of Philosophy (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 01 Jul 2022 09:53 |
Last Modified: | 13 Mar 2023 07:24 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/heyj.14160 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:188273 |
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