La generación del hombre

El inicio de la vida humana en Santo Tomas de Aquino

Abstract

The current study seeks for reflection and defence of life from its very beginning, starting from the Tomist metaphysics and the new discoveries of the medical science. Man generation from the tomist philosophical point of view is based in the essential unit of the substantial that is reflected in the actus assendi. Only the compound substantial unit of the man reveals that the generative path to the human being is immediate because of the form but it is manifested successively in the time as a consequence of the material component of the created compound. Such animation is immediate by the nature of being participated: a rational soul that is perfection of the inferiors, being the only soul that animates the human body starting at the gametes fertilization.