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Football, Mysticism, Thomistic Poetics

Modern Theology, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 63-81, January 2024.
Abstract This essay will especially consider the role of the cogitative power and affectivity in the formation of vocal utterances, showing how the Thomistic account of the integration of passion with reason provides a fascinating apparatus for assessing different uses of language—from the Eucharistic hymns of Aquinas, to the poetry of his Franciscan ...
Jose Isidro Belleza
wiley   +1 more source

Definition and the Epistemology of Natural Kinds in Aristotle

Metaphysics, 2018
We have reason to think that a fundamental goal of natural science, on Aristotle’s view, is to discover the essence-specifying definitions of natural kinds—with biological species as perhaps the most obvious case.
Nathanael Stein
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Richard Swinburne’s Cartesian Dualism and Eleonore Stump’s Hylomorphism: Comparative Analysis

History of Philosophy
The article makes a comparative analysis of R. Swinburne’s Cartesian dualism and E. Stump’s Thomistic hylomorphism. These authors are among the few contemporary philosophers who argue for strong dualist positions contrary to physicalism in the philosophy
N. Vasiliev
semanticscholar   +1 more source

World Enough and Form: Why Cosmology Needs Hylomorphism [PDF]

, 2019
This is a post­ peer-­review, pre-­copyedit version of an article published in Synthese. The final authenticated version is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11229­019­02112­0.
Brungardt, John G.
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Aristotélisme et christologie au XIII-ème siècle. Le problème du corps du Christ dans les derniers écrits de saint Thomas d’Aquin [PDF]

Meta: Research in Hermeneutics, Phenomenology and Practical Philosophy, 2009
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the problem of the relationship between Aristotelianism and Christology in the XIII-th century, as it appears through the famous problem of the body of Christ dead. This problem, which divided the Latin theologians
Cristian Moisuc
doaj  

Each Thing Is Fundamental: Against Hylomorphism and Hierarchical Structure [PDF]

, 2019
Each thing is fundamental. Not only is no thing any more or less real than any other, but no thing is prior to another in any robust ontological sense. Thus, no thing can explain the very existence of another, nor account for how another is what it is. I
Fiocco, M. Oreste
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Kant and Simondon on hylomorphism and individuation

Characteristica Universalis Journal
In this paper, we offer a reading of Kant's schematism and Simondon's theory of individuation to draw some crucial parallelisms. The main aim is to show how both confront the hylomorphic scheme, the former within a theory of knowledge and the latter in ...
Arturo Romero Contreras
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Quantum Randomness, Hylomorphism, and Classical Theism

, 2016
According to certain interpretations of quantum mechanics, the behavior of some physical systems is random—that is, certain current states of physical systems are related to other current states and the set of possible future states in a probabilistic ...
Mark K. Spencer, Spencer, Mark, Spencer, Mark K.   +2 more
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Hylomorphism and the Causal Closure of the Physical

Topoi
Howard Robinson has criticized the contemporary revival of hylomorphism for, on the one hand, accepting the causal closure of the physical, while, on the other, ascribing a real and irreducible causal role to forms or structures.
João Pinheiro da Silva
semanticscholar   +1 more source

From Anaxagoras to Albert the Great: The Latency of Forms and the Active Power of Matter in the Middle Ages

Noctua
This study explores the doctrine of the latency of forms in the Middle Ages, with a particular focus on Albert the Great’s elaboration through his theory of inchoatio formarum. The doctrine, whose origins date back to Anaxagoras and was further developed
Nadia Bray
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