THE CONCEPT OF RELATION IN THE THOMISTIC PERCEPTION OF A PERSON
Journal Title: Studia Gilsoniana - Year 2016, Vol 5, Issue 4
Abstract
The article aims to show that the connection of the metaphysics of being with Aris-totle’s philosophy of nature allows for the composition of anthropology per se which involves the concept of a person as it emerges from the two fundamental issues: the metaphysical approach to a person ontologically connected with nature, and the concept of a person as relation. The article concludes with the claim that, in Thomistic anthro-pology, the supernatural world of persons coexists with the natural world of persons who are subject to cosmic order and legal relations. Thus, a person’s inclusion in the framework of legal relations and its ontological liberation in the supernatural field open up the way for the social acknowledgement of the human person.
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Eleni Procopiou
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