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Immateriality of human soul based upon the verse of spirit

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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...

The Immateriality of Circulating GDF11.

Recent portrayals of growth differentiation factor (GDF)-11 as an endocrine fountain of youth fail to consider the competitive influences of myostatin, a homologous protein with true endocrine action that binds the identical receptor, activin receptor IIb (ActRIIb). Subsequent studies have disproven the original premise that circulating levels of GDF11, but not those of myostatin, decline with ...

Dualism of the Soul and the Body in the Philosophical System of Ibn Sīnā and Descartes

The problem of human's two domains has a significant influence on human knowledge, and since the human privilege in the universe to the other beings as well as the immateriality of the soul and so on is based on proving the soul's substance separately, it worths to search in this issue about the ideas of two Western and Islamic philosophers. Ibn Sīnā with arguments such as the "suspending man" ...

On the Soul

Olivi on the Metaphysics of Soul

The centerpiece of Aristotle's De anima is his account of the soul-body relationship in terms of form: the soul is "the form of a natural body that potentially has life" (I1 1,412a20-21). Recent evaluations of this doctrine have varied widely, from effusive to dismissive. Kathleen Wilkes parallels Aristotle's hylomorphism with "the most promising form" of contemporary functionalism; his theory,...