Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.31337/oz.71.4.2
Is Human Sexuality Human and Personal?
Tadija Milikić
orcid.org/0000-0002-2097-8861
; University of Zagreb — The Faculty of Philosophy and Religious Studies in Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The paper strives to contribute to an understanding of human sexuality chiefly from
the perspective of the Belgian moral theologian Servais Pinckaers who endeavours
to follow Aquinas’ thought and is in line with the most recent documents of the
Magisterium. The first and second sections contribute to a more accurate interpretation
of the »animal« and »natural« dimension of human sexuality in highlighting
that human sexuality indeed has both an animal and natural dimension, but that it
must not be reduced to any sort of animal sexuality or nature which would not be
a singular and unique human nature. The third and most important section of the
article strives to point out the human and personal dimension of sexuality as being
that without which human sexuality is inconceivable, or rather, as that which gives
human sexuality its particular, proper and inalienable anthropological value. And
finally, the reflection permeating the article indirectly points to the supernatural dimension
of human sexuality.
Keywords
sexuality; animality; naturality; substantial unity; humaneness; good; person; Servais Pinckaers; St. Thomas Aquinas
Hrčak ID:
171026
URI
Publication date:
19.12.2016.
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