
Descartes and 'The Aristotelians' on the Soul as the Life of the Body | Prof. Sarah Byers
The Thomistic Institute
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The Difference Between Metabolizing and Non-Metabolism
The body being alive is I'm metabolizing for this whole organism right. Even modern biologists do see the point that there's a difference between describing the processes which is what they do. If we take all the same elements put them in a bucket even if we arrange them like a human body there's no impetus from the inside of the thing to initiate these processes of metabolism. So you have inertia in the local organs but that is not the same as that body being alive.
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