Can Laurens Löwe

Thomas Aquinas on the Metaphysics of the Human Act

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 506g
• ISBN-13: 9781108833646
• ISBN-10: 1108833640
• Artikelnr.: 60890406

Autorenporträt

Can Laurens Löwe is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, and a Member of the Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities 'Human Abilities.' He has published numerous articles on medieval philosophy and metaphysics in journals including the British Journal for the History of Philosophy and Vivarium.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. The General Framework: 1. What is a Human Act?
Part II. Choice Hylomorphism: 2. Practical Judgment
3. The Judgment of Choice
4. Volition and its Dependence on Judgment
5. Choice: Its Intrinsic and its Extrinsic Form
Part III. Act Hylomorphism: 6. The Hylomorphic Structure of the Human Act
7. The Ontology of Bodily Human Acts
8. The Ontology of Mental Human Acts
9. Aquinas's Act Hylomorphism Today
Appendix. Judgment and Composition and Division.