QUADERNI DI NOCTUA
La tradizione filosofica dall’antico al moderno. Studi e testi
History of Philosophy from the Ancient to the Modern Age. Studies and Editions
Autore / Author: Jack Zupko
Affiliazione / Author affiliation: University of Alberta
Titolo / Title: Nicole Oresme, Dualist
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.
Keywords: Dualism; hylomorphism; substance; soul/body; form/matter; inherence; extension; intellect; sensation; human nature; Aristotelian psychology; Oresme; Buridan.
DOI: 10.14640/QuadernidiNoctua5-13
Volume: 5
Pagine / Pages: 433-465
Pubblicazione / Publication date: 01/02/2019
Permalink: https://dx.doi.org/10.14640/QuadernidiNoctua5-13
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