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  title info:
    title: Recovering the soul
    sub title: Aquinas's and Spinoza's surprising and helpful affinity on the nature of mind-body unity
  name:
    name part: Blakemore, G. Stephen
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: oru
    date issued: 2023
    copyright date: 2023
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 247 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Recovering the Soul explores an area of historical philosophy that few if any others have attempted by critically comparing the metaphysical doctrines of Thomas Aquinas and Baruch Spinoza on the identity of mind and body. The central premise is that the hylomorphism of Aquinas's understanding of soul and body has a surprising affinity with Spinoza's own understanding of how human beings are enabled to exist as a single entity that is both mind and body. In the process of making the case that hylomorphism can apply to Spinoza's philosophy as much as Aquinas's, the book carefully exegetes the work of each philosopher and indicates how each is internally consistent within his own system of thought. The hylomorphic reading of Spinoza helps to address some interpretive challenges that his commentators have noted and struggled to harmonize with other aspects of this monist ontology. Beyond the historical and interpretive interests the book addresses, it also makes the case that hylomorphism as a metaphysical theory of human constitution best harmonizes with contemporary studies in the human genome and provides a more comprehensive starting point for the philosophy of mind than reductionism or substance dualism.
  table of contents: On being rationally alive : why compare the doctrines of Thomas Aquinas and Baruch Spinoza? -- Hylomorphism : the principles that enable beings to Be -- Aquinas's version of hylomorphism -- Mind-body identity in Aquinas : on being composite and being one -- Persons in Aquinas's metaphysics -- Reading Spinoza afresh : Thomistic hylomorphism and Spinozistic Conatus -- Thomistic hylomorphism and Spinoza's Conatus -- Hylomorphism, Conatic essence, and immortality in Spinoza and Aquinas -- Recovering the soul : insights and implications for contemporary philosophy of mind.
  note: G. Stephen Blakemore.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-247).
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Aquinas, Saint
      name part: Thomas
      name part: 1225?-1274
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Spinoza, Benedictus de
      name part: 1632-1677
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy of mind
  subject:
    topic: Mind and body
    topic: Philosophy
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Philosophical anthropology
  subject:
    topic: Hylomorphism
  classification: BD418.3 .B575 2023
  identifier: 1532698127
  identifier: 9781532698125
  identifier: 2023275212
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 230215
    record change date: 20230501155403.4
    record identifier: in00004664692