Man more Animal than Anything: The Unity in Human Agency

Owen Flanagan takes his claim that ‘we are animals through and through’ to imply ‘our animal side is our only side’. But ‘Cartesianism’ is not the only alternative available: Aquinas’ view of the human soul as a spiritual reality that is essentially the form of the body means that animality characte...

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Main Author: Finley, John (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge University Press 2019
In: New blackfriars
Year: 2019, Volume: 100, Issue: 1090, Pages: 677-697
Further subjects:B Soul music
B hylomorphic
B disunity
B Unity
B Animal
B Speech
B Body
B Complexity
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