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Semiotic aspects of substantiation of the formative of the unity of being and thinking
Семиотические исследованияThe article examines the semiotic aspects of the substantial form of rational reality, interpreted as an actual essential unity of being and thinking, arising in terms of expressing their one-to-one correspondence during the communicative process.
Alexander N. Ognev
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The Interaction of Noetic and Psychosomatic Operations in a Thomist Hylomorphic Anthropology
Scientia et Fides, 2018 This article, the second of a two-part essay, outlines a solution to certain tensions in Thomist philosophical anthropology concerning the interaction of the human person’s immaterial intellectual or noetic operations with the psychosomatic sensory ...
Daniel De Haan
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Place as a Metaphysical Problem in Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas
Modern Theology, Volume 41, Issue 2, Page 292-310, April 2025.Abstract Thomas Aquinas’ particular synthesis of Aristotelianism and Neoplatonism, and the intellectual tradition it inaugurated, has at least twice faced critical challenges from developments in physics. Besieged by the sixteenth and seventeenth century novatores and more or less ignored by the nineteenth‐ and twentieth‐century practitioners of ...
Onsi Aaron Kamel
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Kwartalnik neofilologicznyThe purpose of the argument is to analyse J. R. R. Tolkien’s conception of the metaphysical status and character of the Middle-earth’s Elves which emerges from the materials collected in The Nature of Middle-earth volume.
B. Błaszkiewicz
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Philosophies of being in India I: Pluralism, nihilism, and monism
Philosophy Compass, Volume 19, Issue 11, November 2024.Abstract Is Being a mere sum of separate things variously re‐combined over time? Or is it not there at all, arising from nothing more than the projection of a fevered metaphysical imagination? Or might it be the intrawoven phenomenon of all we experience, grounded in a single underlying all‐determining nature? This is the first of a pair of articles on
Jessica Michelle Frazier
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Habits, Potencies, and Obedience: Experiential Evidence for Thomistic Hylomorphism
, 2014 Thomistic hylomorphism holds that human persons are composed of matter and a form that is also a subsistent entity. Some object that nothing can be both a form and a subsistent entity, and some proponents of Thomistic hylomorphism respond that our ...
Spencer, Mark
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The Modal Status of Generative Principles
MetaphysicsThis contribution to a symposium marking the 30th anniversary of Kit Fine’s “Essence and Modality” raises a general question for essentialist theories of modality: What sort of proposition can figure in the essence of a property? Several versions of Fine’
Gideon Rosen
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The Cosmos as a World City: A Hylomorphic Foundation for Civic Renewal
ReligionsThis paper contends that the West’s civic crisis is, at root, a cosmological crisis: civic renewal requires metaphysical repair. It is insufficient to endorse virtue ethics and demand civic virtues without a deeper account of reality that can sustain ...
William M. R. Simpson
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Hylomorphic Teleology in Aristotle’s Physics II
Studia Gilsoniana, 2019 This study draws attention to the ordering of matter and form argued for in Aristotle’s Physics II, 8 (199a30–32). This argument for hylomorphic teleology relies on the presentation of nature earlier in Physics II, 1.
Catherine Peters
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THE METAPHYSICS OF SYSTEMICITY IN THE RECONSTRUCTION OF A. UYOMOV’S HYLOMORPHISM
DoxaThis article presents an attempt to reconstruct a neo-Aristotelian hylomorphic model within the framework of A. I. Uyomov’s systems metaphysics. By correlating the classical Aristotelian four causes with Uyomov’s systems descriptors (concept, structure ...
D. Lyashenko
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