
Why Would a Biologist Believe in the Soul? w/ Prof. Jonathan Buttaci (Off-Campus Conversations)
The Thomistic Institute
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Aristotle's Definition of the Soul
The soul is the first act of an organized body having life potentially within it. So by analogy, even when a certain organism is impeded in its life activities, it doesn't lose the principle of prudence. It still retains that concept. And you might wonder about how that might apply in certain bioethical cases actually. If you have this more Aristotelian conception of the soul, and then you carry that over into your study of the human being or the study of moral theology? We'll be able to explain. Talk about it.
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