Article ID: CBB001211018

Animals, Animal Parts, and Hylomorphism: John Duns Scotus's Pluralism about Substantial Form (2012)

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This paper presents an original interpretation of John Duns Scotus's theory of hylomorphism. I argue that Scotus thinks, contrary to Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas, that at least some of the extended parts of a substance---paradigmatically the organs of an animal---are themselves substances. Moreover, Scotus thinks that the form of corporeity is nothing more than the substantial forms of these organic parts. I offer an account of how Scotus thinks that the various extended parts of an animal are substantially unified. First, a plurality of substances can become parts of a complex substance if they are essentially ordered to one another in the order of final causality. Second, a plurality of substances do become parts of a complex substance if they are together informed by a soul. The paper closes with some reflections on some of the ramifications of the substancehood of organic parts on the function of soul.

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Authors & Contributors
Boulnois, Olivier
Fisher, Kendall A.
Tinland, Franck
Tabarroni, Andrea
Spallanzani, Mariafranca
Podkonski, Robert
Concepts
Philosophy
Animals
Animal anatomy
Metaphysics
Ontology
Theology
Time Periods
Medieval
17th century
14th century
Early modern
13th century
Renaissance
Places
France
Europe
Institutions
Université de Paris
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