TY - JOUR
TI - What can grow from the divine seed? The divinity of human beings according to Aristotle
AU - Kamińska, Sonia
TI - What can grow from the divine seed? The divinity of human beings according to Aristotle
AB - 
	This text aims to show that the core of human divinity according to Aristotle is exercising the divine mind for its own sake. Being happy and thus divine is auto-teleological, and must not be reduced to any sort of instrumental value. This reading of Aristotle excludes the theist interpretations of Prime Mover as well as the attempts at identifying the human mind with God, mainly because both these (different) interpretations seem to make auto-teleological bios theoretikos impossible. The first do this by introducing the divine provision which makes people act for God’s sake and not for their own sake. The others reduce the special status of humans by taking away the divine part, in my opinion being the sine qua non condition of the concept of human divinity. All the interpretations of human divinity which I have presented above can be useful nowadays in the ethical, (bio)ethical, social or even political discourse. This shows that the history of philosophy is not only about the past, but also about the future.
VL - 2012
IS - Tom 45, Numer 3
PY - 2013
SN - 0137-2432
C1 - 2084-4077
SP - 173
EP - 182
DO - 10.4467/20844077SR.12.014.0967
UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/studia-religiologica/artykul/what-can-grow-from-the-divine-seed-the-divinity-of-human-beings-according-to-aristotle
KW - traducianism
KW - Zeller. ; animacja
KW - Arystoteles
KW - kreacjonizm
KW - Bóstwo
KW - boskie nasienie
KW - boskość
KW - embriogeneza
KW - bóg/Bóg
KW - istota ludzka
KW - dusza
KW - św. Tomasz
KW - traducjanizm
KW - Zeller
KW - animation
KW - Aristotle
KW - Brentano
KW - creationism
KW - Deity
KW - divine seed
KW - divinity
KW - Eberl
KW - embryogenesis
KW - god / God
KW - human being
KW - nous
KW - nous pathetikos
KW - nous poietikos
KW - soul
KW - St. Thomas
KW - theion sperma