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The Powers Of The Soul | Fr. James Brent, O.P.

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The Immateriality of the Soul

To know is not simply the same thing as to imagine or to use images. Aquinas does not back off his epistemology, or his principle that we need images in order to think. He just says God supplies the phantasms during the interim state, while the separated soul lives on. And he really would rather say that, than give up his Aristotelian empiricism.

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