What Happens After Death? | Prof. Jeffrey Brower

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Summary

Professor Jeffrey Brower explores Aquinas's view of human nature, contrasting it with materialism and substance dualism, focusing on the relationship between body and soul and what happens at death.

This lecture was given on November 8th, 2023, at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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About the Speaker:

Jeffrey E. Brower is Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University, where he serves as the faculty advisor for the Thomistic Institute. He specializes in medieval philosophy, metaphysics, and philosophical theology and especially enjoys working at the intersection of all three areas. He is the author of Aquinas’s Ontology of the Material World: Change, Hylomorphism, and Material Objects (Oxford University Press, 2014) and a contributor to The Oxford Handbook on Aquinas (Oxford University Press, 2012). His recent articles include “Aquinas on the Individuation of Substances,” Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy (2017) and “Aquinas on the Problem of Universals,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (2016).

Keywords: Aquinas, Cartesian Dualism, Death, Human Nature, Materialism, Naturalism, Soul, Substance Dualism, Trialism

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1:01.1	How exactly are we to understand our nature as human beings? Are we fundamentally
1:05.4	material beings, immaterial beings, or some combination of both.
1:11.6	And of course, the first two groups of questions are directly relevant to those in the
1:16.6	third and the final group, which had to do with human death.
1:19.6	What happens to us at death?
1:21.6	Evidently, we cease to be alive, but does this entail that we cease to exist altogether,
1:25.6	or do we somehow survive our death?
1:28.8	In the remainder of my talk, I want to explore Aquinas' answers to these three groups of questions,
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