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The Rational Animal and Modern Science: The Research Context of the Papers
Author(s) -
Conrad Richard
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
new blackfriars
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1741-2005
pISSN - 0028-4289
DOI - 10.1111/nbfr.12506
Subject(s) - soul , conversation , context (archaeology) , epistemology , point (geometry) , human animal , sociology , environmental ethics , philosophy , history , biology , communication , ecology , livestock , geometry , mathematics , archaeology
Abstract The papers collected in this issue of New Blackfriars were delivered at Aquinas Seminar series in Oxford and represent research interests of the Aquinas Institute. This article contextualises them by giving an impression of areas of contemporary research to which they contribute or to which they point. These areas concern animal psychology, the human being as complex rational animal, body‐and‐soul, and human evolution. Some of the many possible issues are identified, so as to suggest that in all these areas the Aristotelian‐Thomistic tradition can enter into a real and fruitful conversation with modern discoveries in biology and psychology; it can take them on board and at the same time pose questions and offer perspectives that stand to be illuminating.