DO ANIMALS HAVE IMMORTAL SOULS? (Czy zwierzeta maja nismiertelna dusze)

• Authors: Badham Paul
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

This concise sketch written from the standpoint of Christian theology is more of an attempt at posing an important question perturbing the believers than a radical and unambiguous solution to it. The author conducted a radical recapitulation of the Aristotelian-Thomist and Cartesian conceptions of the soul and interpretations dominating the European discourse on the soul. In doing so, he also discussed the biologist stands (evolutionism, etiology). The summary proclaims that there are certain reasons for believing that the immortal soul is due only to human beings. Nonetheless, the still prevalent ignorance about the animal 'interior' does not permit to authoritatively refuse this human privilege to animals.

Keywords

EN

ANIMALS; CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY

Discipline

• ANTHROPOLOGY: ANTHROPOLOGY

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Sztuki PAN
• Journal: Konteksty - Polska Sztuka Ludowa
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 63
• Issue: 4(287)
• Pages: 79-83
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Badham Paul

• Paul Badham, University of Wales (Lampeter) (for postal address contact the journal editor)

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10PLAAAA08497