Aquinas and Sartre: On Freedom, Personal Identity, and the Possibility of Happiness
ISBN: 9780813218946
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Catholic University of America Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Thomas Aquinas Saint 1225?–1274; Sartre Jean-Paul 1905–1980; Liberty; Identity (Psychology); Happiness;

Thomas Aquinas and Jean-Paul Sartre are usually identified with completely different philosophical traditions: intellectualism and voluntarism. In this original study, Stephen Wang shows, instead, that there are some profound similarities in their understanding of freedom and human identity.


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