What is the Separated Human Soul? Incomplete Person, Survivalism or Corruptionism | Prof. Daniel De Haan

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🗓️ 22 January 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Professor Daniel De Haan explores the Thomistic debate surrounding the nature of the separated human soul after death, contrasting survivalism, corruptionism, and incompletionism to understand whether the soul retains personhood after death.

This lecture was given on October 10th, 2024, at University of Edinburgh.

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About the Speaker:

Daniel D. De Haan is the Frederick Copleston Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer in Philosophy and Theology in the Catholic Tradition at Campion Hall and Blackfriars at the University of Oxford. Before to coming to Oxford, De Haan was a postdoctoral fellow on the neuroscience strand of the Theology, Philosophy of Religion, and the Sciences project at the University of Cambridge. He has a doctorate in philosophy from the Catholic University of Leuven and University of St Thomas in Texas. His research focuses on philosophical anthropology, hylomorphism and the sciences, moral psychology, philosophical theology, and the thought of Thomas Aquinas.

Keywords: Corruptionism, Eschatology, Hylomorphism, Incompletionism, Joseph Ratzinger, Personhood, Separated Soul, Survivalism, Thomas Aquinas

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1:00.9	Tonight's topic, I believe you're working a little bit on anthropology topics,
1:04.0	kind of is a theme broadly. Is that right? Human person, some of these kind of topics.
1:09.1	So you've asked me to do a kind of niche debate
1:11.6	that's going on within Thomas circles. And it's a debate that I think, though, is of
1:17.1	theological relevance, even though this is going to be mostly a sort of philosophical talk,
1:21.8	focusing on some philosophical aspects of Catholic eschatology. But the question is, what is the separated human soul?
1:29.3	So Catholics believe that when humans die,
1:32.3	the soul process after death, waiting for the resurrection of the body.
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