NEUROVEDY, SLOBODA A DETERMINIZMUS. TOMÁŠ AKVINSKÝ V DIALÓGU SO SÚČASNÝMI VEDAMI O ČLOVEKU

• Authors: Lovás Peter Samuel

Title variants

EN

Neuroscience, freedom and determinism: Thomas Aquinas in dialogue with contemporary human sciences

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

Is human freedom only an illusion and we are determined by all kinds of facts that exclude our freedom? According to some thinkers, the results of Benjamin Libet’s experiments seem to prove this. More effectively than any arguments of science, the existence of free human actions can be questioned by philosophical theses, above all by various doctrines of determinism. In an interdisciplinary dialogue, we will try to answer some postulates of the natural and human sciences with the arguments of Thomas Aquinas, according to which human will is ordered to the general good, which is what determines it. However, every particular good is limited and not good from some point of view. That is why our choice of a specific good is not determined. Reason frees our will from the necessity of always following some individual good, and keeps it open to the complete and universal good.

Keywords

EN

FREEDOM; NECESSITY; INDIVIDUAL GOOD; THOMAS AQUINAS; NEUROSCIENCE

• Publisher: Katolícka univerzita v Ružomberku, VERBUM – vydavateľstvo KU
• Journal: Verba Theologica. Teologický časopis
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 22
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 89 – 111

Contributors

author

Lovás Peter Samuel

• Katedra systematické teologie, Cyrilometodějská teologická fakulta Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci, Univerzitní 22, CZ 779 00 Olomouc, Czech Republic

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.54937/vt.2023.22.1.89-111