hylomorphic

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• In the section that follows, I will argue that the priority of the soul in Aquinas's hylomorphic anthropology suggests a way to incorporate these two aspects of his thought into a coherent account.

  Academic text (2017)

• An object O enjoys a partition when, if we were to list its parts, the list would have the following properties: the list is exhaustive (no part of O is left out), the list is minimal (every part on the list is part of O), and no parts overlap with each other. O might have multiple partitions, but given that O is hylomorphic, one of its partitions is a list of its form and the parts that are enformed.

  Academic text (2016)

• This claim about the convertibility of unity and being is a general one that can be applied to all hylomorphic compounds.

  Academic text (2017)

• But it poses serious challenges to Aquinas himself when his hylomorphic conception of the human being is taken into consideration.

  Academic text (2017)

• The point is to overcome the old hylomorphic pattern, whereby one instance (either the individual or the environment) is the determining factor and the other the determined one.

  Academic text (2017)

• In regard to the ontological priority of the soul in determining the being of a human person, we can say that there is a reduction in Aquinas's hylomorphic ontology that is inverse to materialism.

  Academic text (2017)

• In other words, the verb "to give" signifies a special sort of ontological priority of form to matter, which does not have an existential connotation. It does not imply that form can exist without matter and then brings matter into being. It merely means that the form plays a dominant role in explaining the act of being of a hylomorphic compound.

  Academic text (2017)

• On the other hand, if we ascribe instead the principle of thinking to the intellect or the intellective soul alone, as Aquinas appears to have done in his argument for the immortality of the soul, then we seem to threaten the natural unity of the human soul and body as a hylomorphic compound.

  Academic text (2017)

• In philosophy, the term hylomorphic refers to the idea that objects consist of both matter and form, which shapes their existence.

• Aristotle's theory is often described as hylomorphic, offering a framework that blends material properties with the essence of objects.

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