聖トマスの生命論
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Today various questions concerning "life" and its manifestations are discussed very frequently in many fields of thought. As a result, the past shroud of mystery has been gradually unveiled and there has been an ever increasingly clear exposition on the operations of life and its system. However, this development has not completely answered all questions regarding life and its manifestations, for many questions concerning life still remain unanswered. One such remaining question and perhaps the most fundamental question concerning life is namely the question "What is life?" The word "life" is often used in everyday situations, and therefore, everybody should know its meaning perfectly well; in fact it should be selfexplanatory. However, one is often at a loss when one is asked what life is all about. The academic world of Catholicism is no exception to the rule in that this word has continued to be used without being clearly defined. Hence, one should go back to where one started, and ask anew what life is. Nonetheless, in order that one could solve the problem of what life is, there would be required a vast historic research of unimaginable magnitude. Accordingly, the author chooses to limit the scope of this present research to St. Thomas Aquinas's theory of life, particularly to Question 18 of the First Part of his Summa Theologica, so that it will constitute a sound basis for further research on this subject.
- 長崎純心大学・長崎純心大学短期大学部の論文
- 1999-03-01