
HoP 244 - Everybody Needs Some Body - Aquinas on Soul and Knowledge
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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Aquinas' Views on Human Nature and Knowledge
The speaker explores Aquinas' departure from the consensus of 13th-century thinkers by rejecting the idea of a soul consisting of numerous forms, and instead argues for the unity of the human soul as the rational human soul. Aquinas also discusses the development of the human embryo and its implications, as well as the soul's condition in a disembodied state and the need for bodily resurrection.
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