The Powers Of The Soul | Fr. James Brent, O.P.
The Thomistic Institute
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Is There Time and Purgatory?
Are the actions of the intellect, or at least the human intellect, inherently in time? Or if this a factor which depends on the fact that they are dependent on physiological processes? That's a good question. I don't know what exactly what St. Thomas says about that. Aristotle and the Platonist tradition does tend to think of spirit as being above time in some way. But when you have countably discrete acts of spirit, then though they may not be in time per se, they're going to be in the so-called Avum. And so you might be able to clock it in time that way.
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