This article stresses the main lines of Thomas Aquinas's philosophy on the nature of the body-soul union. Following Aristotle, Aquinas sees the soul as a 'principle of life' which is intimately bound to a body. Together they form a non-contingent composition. In addition, the distinctive feature of the human soul is rationality, which implies that a human needs a mind to be what it is. However,...

The design argument for the existence of God took a probabilistic turn in the 17 and 18 centuries. Earlier versions, such as Thomas Aquinas’ 5 way, usually embraced the premise that goaldirected systems (things that “act for an end” or have a function) must have been created by an intelligent designer. This idea – which we might express by the slogan “no design without a designer” – survived in...

Aristotle?s On the Generation of Animals is referred to in Latin as De Generatione Animalium [6]. As with many of Aristotle?s writings, the exact date of authorship is unknown, but it was produced in the latter part of the fourth century B.C. This book is the second recorded work on embryology [7] as a subject of philosophy, being preceded by contributions in the Hippocratic corpus by about a c...

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,...

The phenomenon of miracle has been present in each time period and each civilization, and what has changed was not its definition but its content. Gautama Buddha, Apostle Paul, Mohammed, Church fathers from Origen and Augustine of Hippo to Gregory the Great and Thomas Aquinas were all studying miracles and trying to find out the rules and systematization for them. The present paper explores the...

Metapolitics is not politics by other means. It is neither a ―strategy‖ to impose intellectual hegemony, nor an attempt to discredit other possible attitudes or agendas. It rests solely on the premise that ideas play a fundamental role in collective consciousness and, more generally, in human history. Through their works, Heraclitus, Aristotle, St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, René Descartes,...

This article presents the history and main assumptions of biblical Thomism, which began with an attempt to restore interest in commentaries Thomas Aquinas, but has managed develop its own methodological procedure. The key understanding it may be idea integration. Biblical Thomismism is thomistic a mode that allows for, encourages, direct engagement theological exegetical resources. Its aim brin...