Tag: whole person
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The Soul of Education, Part 8: Descartes and the Ghost in the Machine
In our ongoing series, we have been working like the Stoic philosopher Athenodorus, following the ghost of our philosophical assumptions about the soul out into the courtyard of historical ideas to discover what must be retained and what must be reburied. So far in our chronological survey we have engaged with the tripartite harmony of…
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The Soul of Education, Part 7: The Thomistic Synthesis-Soul as Form and Spirit
The Great Conversation regarding the nature of the human person finds a singular climax in the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274). Known as the Doctor Angelicus, Aquinas was a Dominican friar whose life’s work involved reconciling the newly rediscovered Aristotelian corpus with the established Augustinian theological tradition. Born into a noble family in Italy,…