ČLOVĚK JAKO ŽIVOČICH ROZUMOVÝ A VTĚLENÝ DUCH. TOMÁŠ AKVINSKÝ A SOUČASNÁ TOMISTICKÁ PERSPEKTÍVA

• Authors: Machula Tomáš

Title variants

EN

Human being as animal rationale and an embodied spirit. Thomas Aquinas and contemporary thomistic perspective

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The paper is focused on the question whether a human person should be treated as a rational animal or an embodied spirit. The first definition of a human being goes back to Aristotle. In his conception human being is the highest animal, i.e. he is on the top of the hierarchy of material beings. The second definition shows human being on the lowest position in the realm of spirits. Here human being is the lowest and the least perfect among spiritual beings, the only spirit who is submerged into material world. The paper presents and discusses the ideas of W. Norris Clarke, who was influenced by James Etzwiller.

Keywords

EN

ANIMAL RATIONALE; AQUINAS THOMAS; EMBODIED SPIRIT; HUMAN BEING; THOMISM

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Filozofia (Philosophy)
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 66
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 49-58
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Machula Tomáš

• Doc. Tomas Machula, PhD., Th.D., Katedra filosofie a religionistiky TF JU, Knezska 8, 370 01 Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11SKAAAA09575