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Aquinas on Fixity of Will After Death

By Edward Feser

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Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Year
2023
Language
english
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PDF
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243 kB (248884 bytes)
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2024-08-07 00:00:59

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New Blackfriars, Volume 104, Issue 1114, November 2023, pp. 651 - 667DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/nbfr.12867Aquinas holds that after death, the human soul can no longer change its basic orientation either toward God or away from him. He takes this to be knowable not only from divine revelation but by purely philosophical reasoning. The heart of his position is that the basic orientation of an angelic will is fixed immediately after its creation, and that the human soul after death is relevantly like an angel. This article expounds and defends Aquinas's position, paying special attention to the action theory underlying it.

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