Against Unconscious Motivations, Urges, and Instincts in Human Beings

• Authors: Pańpuch Zbigniew
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The aim of this paper is to discuss the problem of the human body as to whether it is wholly and directly influenced by the rational forces of the soul, or it contains something instinctive or unconscious that can exert a determinative influence on human actions and behavior. Drawing on Thomistic anthropology, the author gives his interpretation of organic factors in the human body and their place in the free and rational actions of the human being through the case study of sensual appetitive powers. The latter, he concludes, are what simplify the execution of desires of the soul.

Keywords

EN

Plato; Aristotle; Thomas Aquinas; Thomistic anthropology; human body; human being; human person; human action; reason; will; soul; instinct; urge; desire; organism; sense; appetite

• Publisher: International Étienne Gilson Society
• Journal: Studia Gilsoniana
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 9
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 537-547

Dates

published

2020-12-30

Contributors

author

Pańpuch Zbigniew

• John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland

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Identifiers

ISSN

2300-0066

ISSN

2577-0314

DOI

10.26385/SG.090423