Article ID: CBB001200790

Aquinas's Natural Heart (2013)

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Thomas Aquinas significantly revised Aristotelian cardiocentrism on the origin and act of the passions of the soul. His Summa theologiae and other writings asserted the primacy of the soul over the body to argue for the cause of the passions as an alteration of the soul, which affected cardiac movements. Aquinas revised the Aristotelian tradition that the soul existed in the body as domiciled in the heart, the primary organ, as its vital principle. Aquinas argued that the soul informed the body and cohered with every organ. His decisive analysis in his late, neglected De motu cordis reinforced the movements of the heart as instantiating the soul as the form of the body. Aquinas maintained that the heart was indeed the natural mover of the body, even though the heart was moved by the soul, yet insofar as the soul informed the body, not as resident in the heart.

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Description On Aquinas' view of the relationship of the soul to the heart.


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Authors & Contributors
Fisher, Kendall A.
Wirth, Jean
Webb, Heather Mariah
Thijssen, Johannes M. M. H.
Tellkamp, Jörg Alejandro
Silva, José Filipe
Concepts
Philosophy
Soul (philosophy)
Aristotelianism
Definition of human; human nature
Psychology
Philosophy and religion
Time Periods
Medieval
13th century
17th century
14th century
Early modern
Renaissance
Places
Italy
Europe
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