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Title: | Thomas Aquinas on Natural Inclinations: Metaphysical Background, Philosophical Anthropology, and Relation to Goods and Precepts | Authors: | Matchulat, Justin | Keywords: | Natural inclinations; Aquinas; Metaphysics; Good; Practical Cognition | Issue Date: | Dec-2021 | Publisher: | EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste | Source: | Justin Matchulat, "Thomas Aquinas on Natural Inclinations: Metaphysical Background, Philosophical Anthropology, and Relation to Goods and Precepts", in "Esercizi Filosofici" 16, 2021, pp. 111-137 | Part of: | Esercizi Filosofici 16, 2 (2021) | Abstract: | How and why does a being’s nature relate to what is good for it? Thomas Aquinas provides an account such that a being’s nature endows it with powers and natural inclinations – tendencies, strivings, directednesses – for the very goods that constitute a flourishing life for beings of that nature. In this essay, I aim to present, elucidate, and motivate Aquinas’s rich and nuanced thought on natural inclinations and how it illuminates some of his key views in metaphysics, philosophical anthropology, and ethics. I first provide the background in Aquinas’s philosophical psychology and metaphysics, including his natural theology. Next, I take up the objection that evolutionary theory renders Aquinas’s thought on these matters obsolete. I then consider the natural inclinations of human beings, and specifically how these natural inclinations relate to practical cognition of basic goods and precepts. |
Type: | Article | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10077/33595 | eISSN: | 1970-0164 | DOI: | 10.13137/1970-0164/33595 | Rights: | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internazionale |
Appears in Collections: | Esercizi Filosofici 16, 2 (2021) |
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