Recovering the soul : Aquinas's and Spinoza's surprising and helpful affinity on the nature of mind-body unity /

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 o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Blakemore, G. Stephen (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Eugene, Oregon : Pickwick Publications, an imprint of Wipf and Stock Publishers, [2023].
Subjects:	Thomas, > Aquinas, Saint, > 1225?-1274. Spinoza, Benedictus de, > 1632-1677. Philosophy of mind. Mind and body > Philosophy > History. Philosophical anthropology. Hylomorphism.

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.