Rationality and Human Fulfilment Clarified by a Thomistic Metaphysics of Participation

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Scientia et Fides Pub Date : 2022-03-03 DOI:10.12775/setf.2022.009

Andrew Mullins

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Abstract

A Thomistic metaphysics of participation in being offers an account of rationality that is more complete and coherent than that of nonreductive physicalism. It is a reasoned understanding of how an embodied intellectual subject shares in being and intellectual life. This metaphysical framework supports an understanding of rationality as a participated power, and an essential property of human nature empowering persons to know reality and make choices accordingly. Human fulfilment in truth and love is a consequence of the grounding of the transcendentals of truth and goodness in being. In contrast, nonreductive physicalism reduces rationality to processes and subjective experiences and can offer no priority between human material and spiritual fulfilment. Although a Thomistic metaphysics of participation in being has been effectively absent from Anglo-American hylomorphic philosophy of mind, this paper suggests it is time to reassess the benefits it offers.

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托马斯式参与形而上学阐释的理性与人的实现

关于参与存在的托马斯式形而上学提供了一种比非还原物理主义更完整、更连贯的理性解释。它是一种理性的理解，体现了一个智力主体如何分享存在和智力生活。这种形而上学的框架支持理性作为一种参与力量的理解，以及人性的基本属性，使人们能够了解现实并做出相应的选择。人类在真理和爱中的成就是在存在中先验的真理和善的基础的结果。相反，非还原性物理主义将理性简化为过程和主观经验，无法在人类的物质满足和精神满足之间提供优先权。虽然托马斯式的参与存在的形而上学在英美的心灵哲学中实际上是缺席的，但本文认为是时候重新评估它所提供的好处了。

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Scientia et Fides RELIGION-

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