Nicole Oresme, Dualist

Autori

  • Jack Zupko University of Alberta

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14640/QuadernidiNoctua5-13

Parole chiave:

dualism, hylomorphism, substance, soul/body, form/matter, inherence, extension, intellect, sensation, human nature, Aristotelian psychology, Oresme, Buridan

Abstract

According to Nicole Oresme (c. 1320–1382), human beings, unlike all other animals, consist of two substances: a thinking substance and a sensing substance. This paper presents and explores the arguments Oresme uses to arrive at this position, which is unusual in medieval philosophical psychology and which at least superficially – though their methods are completely different – resembles what Descartes concluded about the nature of the human soul and body two and a half centuries later. The paper also considers some moments of ambivalence in Oresme’s presentation, as well as unresolved difficulties, several of which have theological as well as philosophical implications.

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Pubblicato

2019-02-01

Fascicolo

2019: Quaderni di Noctua, volume 5

Sezione

Quaderni di Noctua

Licenza

Copyright (c) 2019 Jack Zupko

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