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The Human Person: A Metaphysical Gaze 10: The Body continued by Fr Thomas Dunton CSJ from 2017-12-13T04:50:11
The body is first in the order of conditioning – our work, personality, nature, community, moral life, imagination are all aspects of our body’s conditioning. In addition, we are the pr...
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The Human Person: A Metaphysical Gaze 9: The Body by Fr Thomas Dunton CSJ from 2017-12-06T04:59:35
Pere Marie-Dominique Philippe described the body as ‘The substantial conditioning of the human person’. We have no experience outside of our bodies, so in one sense we only exist –...
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The Human Person: A Metaphysical Gaze 8: Discovering Autonomy by Fr Thomas Dunton CSJ from 2017-11-29T17:06:03
Beginning with the judgement of existence ‘this is’, and discovering the reality of existence outside ourselves, enables us to affirm the metaphysical, objective, reality of ‘I am...
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The Human Person: A Metaphysical Gaze 7: Discovering Finality by Fr Thomas Dunton CSJ from 2017-11-22T06:59:06
Beyond all determinations, which describe our form, there is a more profound level of being which is described by ‘act’. As human beings we have the capacity to choose, and this implies...
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The Human Person: A Metaphysical Gaze 6: The Proper Principles of Being by Fr Thomas Dunton CSJ from 2017-11-16T05:00:34
What is ‘that-which-is in so far as it is’? This question is concerned with the judgement of existence. It leads further to such questions as: Can the matter which exists be described s...
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The Human Person: A Metaphysical Gaze 5: The Metaphysical search for truth by Fr Thomas Dunton CSJ from 2017-11-09T14:38:42
‘First Philosophy’ was the term used by Aristotle to embrace the study or search for what is absolutely first, or ultimate. In more recent centuries the term ‘Metaphysics’ has tended to...
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The Human Person: A Metaphysical Gaze 4: The Contribution from Aristotle by Fr Thomas Dunton CSJ from 2017-11-03T03:16:33
Aristotle’s contribution to our notion of the human person was and still is, fundamental. He considered the relationship between nature and the person, and concluded that the person is not simply a...
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The Human Person: A Metaphysical Gaze 3: The Contribution from Psychology by Fr Thomas Dunton CSJ from 2017-10-23T17:05:26
“Psychology is generally understood as one of the most important forces in contemporary society, as such it is useful to trace its modern history in order to truly grasp modern psychologyR...
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The Human Person: A Metaphysical Gaze 2: The Discovery of the Human Person by Fr Thomas Dunton CSJ from 2017-10-18T08:03:42
Fr Marie-Dominique Philippe, the founder of the Community of St John, wrote the following lines in the first chapter of his book entitled ‘Retracing Reality’: “The search for wisd...
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The Human Person: A Metaphysical Gaze 1: Introduction by Fr Thomas Dunton CSJ from 2017-10-12T16:49:13
We are pleased to be able to publish this series of talks given by Fr Thomas Dunton of the Community of St John to novices of the Community based at their priory in Princeville, Ohio, USA, on the s...
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