Description

• Title:
  Soul or Brain: A False Dilemma? The Thomist Perspective
• Creator:
  Vijgen, Jörgen
• Description:
  In this article I will claim that from a Thomist perspective the question “Soul or Brain: What makes us human?” presents us with a false dilemma and hence must as such remain an unanswerable question. In order to corroborate this claim I will do two things. First, I present the framework of a Thomistic anthropology in so far as it relates to the unity of soul and body in the human person. Next, I deal with the question that immediately results from this unity, i.e. the subsistence of the soul. From a Thomist perspective this question can be answered apart from any findings from neuroscience.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2017 Scientia et Fides
• Date:
  2017.07.18
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  English
• Source:
  Scientia et Fides; Vol. 5 No. 2 (2017); 71-86;
  Scientia et Fides; Tom 5 Nr 2 (2017); 71-86;
  2353-5636;
  2300-7648
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu
• Relation: https://apcz.umk.pl/SetF/article/view/SetF.2017.015/12479
• Subject:
  Thomas Aquinas;
  anthropology;
  soul;
  body
• Identifier: https://apcz.umk.pl/SetF/article/view/SetF.2017.015
• Data provider:
  Akademicka Platforma Czasopism
• Can I use it?:
  seek permission
• Type:
  text