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Thomas Aquinas on the Metaphysics of the Human Act

by Can Laurens Lowe

  • Hardback
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 1.5 cm

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This book offers a novel account of Aquinas's theory of the human act. It argues that Aquinas takes a human act to be a composite of two power-exercises, where one relates to the other as form to matter. The formal component is an act of the will, and the material component is a power-exercise caused by the will, which Aquinas refers to as the 'commanded act.' The book also argues that Aquinas conceptualizes the act of free choice as a hylomorphic composite: it is, materially, an act of the will, but it inherits a form from reason. As the book aims to show, the core idea of Aquinas's hylomorphic action theory is that the exercise of one power can structure the exercise of another power, and this provides a helpful way to think of the presence of cognition in conation and of intention in bodily movement.
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  • Author

    Can Laurens Lowe

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    July 2021

  • Weight

    495g

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 1.5 cm

  • ISBN

    9781108833646

  • ISBN-10

    1108833640

  • Eden Code

    5544002

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