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The Individuation Of The Soul After Death | Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P.

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Aquinas - The Relationship, the Forma Corporis, and the Essay Terminum Argument

According to my kind of taxonomy of the arguments Aquinas gives on this subject, I think there are basically three categories of arguments. So let's start with the first, the relationship argument. In it he attributes the separated soul's individuation to its relationship to its body in general. He says that the soul has a certain habitudo, purportio, amen charatio, ordo, or relatio to its own body.

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