Antonia Fitzpatrick

Thomas Aquinas on Bodily Identity

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Produktbeschreibung

Thomas Aquinas asked the essential philosophical question which continues to resound to the modern day: what constitutes a human being? This volume looks at Aquinas's views on bodily and spiritual identity through a lens of theological concerns, pagan and Arabic authoritative sources, and contemporary polemic with dualist heresy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 163mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 748g
• ISBN-13: 9780198790853
• ISBN-10: 0198790856
• Artikelnr.: 48321350

Autorenporträt

Antonia Fitzpatrick is Departmental Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Oxford's History Faculty and St. John's College. Prior to this, she was a Junior Research Fellow at St. John's, a doctoral and masters student at University College London, and an undergraduate at Wadham College, Oxford. Thomas Aquinas on Bodily Identity is her first book. She is researching a second monograph on Dominican and Franciscan intellectual traditions in the Late Middle Ages, and separately examining notions of harmony in medieval thought. Antonia is trained in Philosophy as well as History, and in addition to articles on Franciscan and Dominican debates about individuality and bodily identity, she has published on the relationship between modern historical modes of argumentation and formal logic.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Aristotelian Tradition (I): Individuality and the Individual Body
2: Aristotelian Tradition (II): Bodily Identity
3: Thomas Aquinas (I): Individuality and the Individual Body
4: Thomas Aquinas (II): Bodily Identity
Conclusion
Epilogue: The Later Battles
Bibliography