Reflexiones acerca de la constitución metafísica del hombre en el pensamiento de Tomás de Aquino: el planteo de un problema

Abstract

Three are the theses that Thomas Aquinas will have to reconcile when, in his strenuous intellectual labor, it is time to engage in the question of “man” and explain its ontological constitution: the thesis of the immortality of man’s soul, the thesis of the substantial unit between body and soul expressed in Aristotelian terms – in this way, the soul behaves in relation to the body as the shape of matter constituting a single substance: “man”–; and finally, the “resurrection of the flesh” affirmation that, according to the promise made by God himself, has to do with man in its whole, who has been created by God in a single act. The first two are philosophical propositions. The second one constitutes a statement of the Christian faith. The objective of this paper is to determine, in the most precise way possible, the axes of the problem and to examine, through the analyses of the main texts, the solution proposed by Aquinas in this matter.