Aquinas on the Union of Body and Soul | Prof. Gyula Klima
The Thomistic Institute
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Aquinas' Thesis on the Unicity of Substantial Forms
On Aquinas' understanding, even a material substantial form cannot be identified with the structure of this matter because matter can have any structure at all. In fact, we can see Aquinas' idea best contrasted with the approach of trying to identify substantial forms with the structures of matter at its different levels of organization. If we take a closer look at his main argument, that is Aquinas' main argument for the thesis of the unicity of substantial forms.
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