FRINK Linked Data Fragments server

Matches in SemOpenAlex for { <https://semopenalex.org/work/W7863485> ?p ?o ?g. }

• W7863485 startingPage "829" @default.
• W7863485 abstract "While students of Aquinas's metaphysics have long profited from the De ente et essentia(1) students of his anthropology have turned their attention to his more explicitly psychological texts.(2) Yet the De ente et essentia is not without anthropological interest. Much of chapter five's analysis of created intelligence concerns the human soul's form and esse composition; the preceding chapters abound with references to man(3) as a natural composite defined by genus and species. Moreover, the very examination of definition itself constitutes no small part of the opusculum's program. In view of the fact that Aquinas's one explicitly logical and metaphysical treatise is filled with arguments bearing on man and the human soul, this work's anthropological dimension and implications deserve to be carefully studied. At first Thomas appears simply to reiterate Aristotle's definition of man as a animal.(4) In doing so Aquinas would seem to restrict himself to a definition worked out in the terms of classical naturalism. Yet in light of the very metaphysical revolution that the De ente et essentia itself initiates, it would be surprising if this definition of man is his final word. In fact a careful reading reveals that all the passages cluster in chapters 2 and 3.(5) This definition is nowhere found, explicitly or implicitly, in chapters 4 or 5. This sudden silence is doubly surprising in light of the fact that the latter two chapters thematically discuss the human soul; they do so, moreover, in the full light of his esse-essentia analysis. The theme of inquiry in the second and third chapters, on the other hand, is not specifically the soul or man, but any composite ens and its essentia; and the investigation is conducted in the limited light of the matter-form analysis. Aquinas, then, defines man as a rational animal precisely where the human soul is not the specific topic of his inquiry and when his explicitly metaphysical tools of analysis have not yet come to light. The second and third chapters analyze ens and essentia as they first come to sight quoad nos.(6) As such, these chapters are concerned with the principles of composition rather than with the act of existence. From this perspective there is no need--as there will be in later chapters--to differentiate the human soul from the other physical forms. Clearly, the standpoint in these early chapters is natural philosophy, while the horizon of the later chapters is metaphysics. Any interpretation of Thomas's teaching on the human soul in the De ente et essentia which neglects the developmental character of the work, ignores its shift from physics to metaphysics, or treats its initial formulations as final syntheses, distorts his understanding. In this paper I hope to show that Aquinas's adoption of Aristotle's understanding of man is partial and limited. Thomas understands that it is not his last word on the subject but his first word. Rational is the definition proper to physics; Thomas's fuller anthropology is rooted in his metaphysics. I will argue that, in the larger perspective of metaphysics, he understands man to be an incarnate (difference) spirit (genus).(7) My attempt to recover the De ente et essentia's fuller anthropology will proceed in the following steps. First, I will trace the definition back to its roots in physics and logic. Secondly, I will show that Thomas transcends this definition because it is incapable of doing justice to the full human riches discovered by the ascent to esse. Thirdly, I will examine the repercussions of this ascent to esse on his anthropology. Finally, I will show that this opusculum's anthropology is continued in his later writings, especially the Summa theologiae. I Chapters 2 and 3 in the De ente explore essentia in terms of its signification of composite substance and its definition by the logical intentions. …" @default.
• W7863485 created "2016-06-24" @default.
• W7863485 creator A5002862791 @default.
• W7863485 date "1998-06-01" @default.
• W7863485 modified "2023-09-23" @default.
• W7863485 title "The Anthropology of Aquinas's 'De Ente et Essentia.'" @default.
• W7863485 hasPublicationYear "1998" @default.
• W7863485 type Work @default.
• W7863485 sameAs 7863485 @default.
• W7863485 citedByCount "2" @default.
• W7863485 countsByYear W78634852015 @default.
• W7863485 crossrefType "journal-article" @default.
• W7863485 hasAuthorship W7863485A5002862791 @default.
• W7863485 hasConcept C111472728 @default.
• W7863485 hasConcept C124952713 @default.
• W7863485 hasConcept C138885662 @default.
• W7863485 hasConcept C142362112 @default.
• W7863485 hasConcept C150104678 @default.
• W7863485 hasConcept C182744844 @default.
• W7863485 hasConcept C2780822299 @default.
• W7863485 hasConcept C41895202 @default.
• W7863485 hasConcept C554936623 @default.
• W7863485 hasConceptScore W7863485C111472728 @default.
• W7863485 hasConceptScore W7863485C124952713 @default.
• W7863485 hasConceptScore W7863485C138885662 @default.
• W7863485 hasConceptScore W7863485C142362112 @default.
• W7863485 hasConceptScore W7863485C150104678 @default.
• W7863485 hasConceptScore W7863485C182744844 @default.
• W7863485 hasConceptScore W7863485C2780822299 @default.
• W7863485 hasConceptScore W7863485C41895202 @default.
• W7863485 hasConceptScore W7863485C554936623 @default.
• W7863485 hasIssue "4" @default.
• W7863485 hasLocation W78634851 @default.
• W7863485 hasOpenAccess W7863485 @default.
• W7863485 hasPrimaryLocation W78634851 @default.
• W7863485 hasRelatedWork W114379919 @default.
• W7863485 hasRelatedWork W1527052990 @default.
• W7863485 hasRelatedWork W156036404 @default.
• W7863485 hasRelatedWork W1597169719 @default.
• W7863485 hasRelatedWork W1598911198 @default.
• W7863485 hasRelatedWork W170475945 @default.
• W7863485 hasRelatedWork W1810009981 @default.
• W7863485 hasRelatedWork W1988448218 @default.
• W7863485 hasRelatedWork W2023265742 @default.
• W7863485 hasRelatedWork W2090058242 @default.
• W7863485 hasRelatedWork W2182741885 @default.
• W7863485 hasRelatedWork W2579580940 @default.
• W7863485 hasRelatedWork W2907888858 @default.
• W7863485 hasRelatedWork W3194713411 @default.
• W7863485 hasRelatedWork W320134142 @default.
• W7863485 hasRelatedWork W602695485 @default.
• W7863485 hasRelatedWork W644635101 @default.
• W7863485 hasRelatedWork W656559562 @default.
• W7863485 hasRelatedWork W2186639359 @default.
• W7863485 hasRelatedWork W2549024937 @default.
• W7863485 hasVolume "51" @default.
• W7863485 isParatext "false" @default.
• W7863485 isRetracted "false" @default.
• W7863485 magId "7863485" @default.
• W7863485 workType "article" @default.