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| | MAN=BODY+SOUL: Aquinas's Arithmetic of Human Nature |
 | | For according to this doctrine, the form on account of which a man is a body, his corporeity, is the same as that on account of which he is an animal, his animality, and this, in turn, is the same as that on account of which he is a human, his humanity. |
 | | For if soul and body are one entity, namely, a living body, having all their powers and actions in common in the whole they constitute, then their distinction is apparently a merely conceptual one: the concepts of body and soul provide us merely with different aspects for considering the same, essentially material entity. |
 | | Now, clearly, if understanding is the act of the intellective soul alone (which is a claim to be established by a separate argument, but that need not concern us here),[25] then this means that the soul has some action and the corresponding power, which only a subsistent being has. |
| www.fordham.edu /gsas/phil/klima/BODYSOUL.HTM (5603 words) |
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