Faith and Philosophy 12 (4):505-531 (1995)
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The major Western monotheisms, and Christianity in particular, are often supposed to be committed to a substance dualism of a Cartesian sort. Aquinas, however, has an account of the soul which is non-Cartesian in character. He takes the soul to be something essentially immaterial or configurational but nonetheless realized in material components. In this paper, I argue that Aquinas’s account is coherent and philosophically interesting; in my view, it suggests not only that Cartesian dualism isn’t essential to Christianity but also that the battle lines between dualism and materialism are misdrawn
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Keywords | Contemporary Philosophy Philosophy and Religion |
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ISBN(s) | 0739-7046 |
DOI | 10.5840/faithphil199512430 |
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