Embodied intellect

Human Person

The human being is an embodied rational substance with intellect and will.

This domain clarifies why the human person is neither a mere animal machine nor a mind temporarily attached to a body. The soul is the form of the body, while intellect and will open human life to truth, freedom, and moral responsibility.

What this domain studies

Soul as the substantial form of the living body.
Intellect, will, imagination, sensation, and appetite.
Personal unity against reductionist materialism and dualism.
Freedom, knowledge, and the embodied conditions of human action.

Foundational concepts

Hylomorphism Act and potency Virtue and beatitude

Depends on

First Principles Nature

Leads to

Moral Life Social Life Grace and Christ

Primary places to read

Summa Theologiae I, qq. 75-89Aquinas Quaestiones disputatae de animaAquinas De unitate intellectusAquinas

Related existing pages

St. Thomas Aquinas Modern Philosophy Answers