
The Thomistic Institute The Individuation Of The Soul After Death | Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P.
Jul 18, 2022
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Human Being As One Substance
- Aquinas holds the human being is one substance composed of soul and body, not two substances.
- The human soul is an immaterial, subsistent intellectual form that survives bodily death.
The Individuation Problem Posed
- Aquinas faces the objection that immaterial souls would be identical if all humans share one form.
- He develops arguments to show souls remain numerically distinct after death despite sharing species-form.
Study Aquinas By Comparing Arguments
- Read Aquinas closely as a student to grasp his metaphysical synthesis.
- Trace different arguments he uses to reveal their shared metaphysical foundations.
