Neuroscience, Freedom and Determinism: Thomas Aquinas in Dialogue with Contemporary Human Sciences

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https://doi.org/10.54937/vt.2023.22.1.89-111

Autor/ Author: Peter Samuel Lovás

In: Verba Theologica

ISSN: 1336-1635 (Print)

ISSN: 2644-4844 (Online)

Ročník/ Volume: XXII.

Číslo/ Issue: 1

Strany/ Page Range: 89-111

Rok vydania/ Publication Year: 2023

Jazyk/ Language: Slovak

Vydavateľ/ Publisher: VERBUM – vydavateľstvo Katolíckej univerzity v Ružomberku

Abstrakt/ Abstract: Is human freedom only an illusion and we are determined by all kinds of facts that exclude our freedom? According to some thinkers, the results of Benjamin Libet’s experiments seem to prove this. More effectively than any arguments of science, the existence of free human actions can be questioned by philosophical theses, above all by various doctrines of determinism. In an interdisciplinary dialogue, we will try to answer some postulates of the natural and human sciences with the arguments of Thomas Aquinas, according to which the human will is ordered to the general good, which is what determines it. However, every particular good is limited and not good from some point of view. That is why our choice of a specific good is not determined. Reason frees our will from the necessity of always following some individual good, and keeps it open to the complete and universal good.

Kľúčové slová/ Keywords:  Freedom, Fully voluntary act, Necessity, Individual good, Thomas Aquinas

Citácia/ How to cite:

LOVÁS, Peter Samuel, 2023. Neurovedy, sloboda a determinizmus. Tomáš Akvinský v dialógu so súčasnými vedami o človeku. Verba Theologica. Online. Roč. XXII., č. 1, s. 89-111. ISSN 1336-1635 (Print). ISSN 2644-4844 (Online). Dostupné na: https://doi.org/10.54937/vt.2023.22.1.89-111

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