Aquinas on the Soul

Aquinas on the Materiality of the Human Soul and the Immateriality of the Human Intellect

Contemporary philosophers tend to become interested in Aquinas’s conception of the mind when they perceive it as possibly offering a promising alternative between “the Scylla of materialism and the Charybdis of dualism”. They tend to become disillusioned, however, when they run into the problem of the apparent inconsistency in Aquinas’s conception. Furthermore, if they manage somehow to get ove...

On Kenny on Aquinas on Being : A Critical Review of Aquinas on Being by Anthony Kenny

Gyula Klima, Review of A. Kenny: Aquinas on Mind (New York: Routledge, 1995) in Faith and Philosophy 15 (1998) 113–17. In this essay I will only deal with Kenny’s charges against Aquinas’s doctrine that directly concern Aquinas’s doctrine of being, namely, the charge of his failure to distinguish “specifi c existence” from “individual being” à la Frege, and the charges against Aquinas’s doctrin...

On the Soul

The Soul According to Rāmānuja

Rāmānuja was the founder of Visistādvaita Vedānta School, which is one of the three main schools of Vedānta. According to Rāmānuja, the soul (cit), Brahman, and matter (acit) constitute the three principal ontological realities. Rāmānuja provides some proofs for the existence of the soul, which are mostly based on self-consciousness. The relationship of the soul with the matter, on one hand, an...

Gabriele Galluzzo , Aquinas on Mental Being

Historians of medieval philosophy have always paid attention to the topic of intentionality. This is not surprising. For medieval authors, the analysis of the metaphysics and the mechanisms of human cognition became over time one of the most important instruments for approaching a bundle of basic philosophical and theological questions, such as the nature of universals, the mind-world relation,...