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Thomas Aquinas on the Metaphysics of the Human Act

  • Hardback
  • 280 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 1.5 cm

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For students and scholars of philosophy and theology

Clarifies complex ideas of human acts and free choice

You will gain deeper insights into Aquinas's thought

This book explores Thomas Aquinas's unique theory of human acts.

This book offers a novel account of Aquinas's theory of the human act. It argues that Aquinas takes a human act to be a composite of two power-exercises, where one relates to the other as form to matter. The formal component is an act of the will, and the material component is a power-exercise caused by the will, which Aquinas refers to as the 'commanded act.' The book also argues that Aquinas conceptualizes the act of free choice as a hylomorphic composite: it is, materially, an act of the will, but it inherits a form from reason. As the book aims to show, the core idea of Aquinas's hylomorphic action theory is that the exercise of one power can structure the exercise of another power, and this provides a helpful way to think of the presence of cognition in conation and of intention in bodily movement.
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Biblical Hebrew for All: Volume 1 (Beginner) - Second EditionThomas Aquinas on the Metaphysics of the Human Act

  • Title

    Thomas Aquinas on the Metaphysics of the Human Act

  • Author

    Can Laurens Lowe

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    July 2021

  • Weight

    495g

  • Page Count

    280

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 1.5 cm

  • ISBN

    9781108833646

  • ISBN-10

    1108833640

  • Eden Code

    5544002

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