Syllabus
Introduction: What is a human being? What is a person?
Module I: Soul as substance
Module II: The powers of the soul
Module III: Cognition as experience
Module IV: Challenging I. Comparisons and difficulties
Annotation
FALL TERM 2021
BA module+Erasmus e-mail me for consultation or questions: anna.tropia@ff.cuni.cz
What is a human person? What are her distinctive features, and what are not? Thinking and, more generally, what pertains to the sphere of intellection is usually considered as the distinctive mark of humanity. But what about the body? Are human beings determined by their material bodies and features or not? Revolving around the most famous definition of the human soul as the “form of the body”, in this course we will target the make-up of a human being (and of a human person) in the tract that Thomas Aquinas devotes to human nature in the Sum of Theology.