Aquinas on the Union of Body and Soul | Prof. Gyula Klima
The Thomistic Institute
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The Immateriality of the Intellect and Aquinas
Aquinas' main argument for the natural immortality of the human soul is based on the immateriality of its intellect. The intellect being a non-material power cannot inhere a matter but being a power and not a substance but a various it must inhere in a subject so it inheres in the intellective soul itself as its subject. However the soul itself is a form and forming matter for which to be is for it to and for matter. But being the subject of any material power it is also a substance forwhich to be it does not have to inform anything. So the existence of the human Soul is not necessarily identical with the existence of a body even if it actually is
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