Thomas’ View on the Human Soul

Thomas’ View on the Human Soul

  1. Extremely important notes
  2. You must double-check all your citations.
  3. You address the issues of Aquinas’s view of the soul, the human soul, human nature. I will have a chapter on issues of the separated soul. Please do not address the issues of the separated soul in this chapter.
  4. Please avoid some philosophical errors (Please understand the correctly philosophical term, esp. Thomistic Terms).
  5. Avoid making contradictory statements in the whole thing.
  6. Citation and Footnote
  7. For works of Thomas Aquinas: The structure of each article of work of Thomas Aquinas is as follows:
    1. Objection: 1, 2, 3 …
    2. Answer: Main point of this article
    3. Reply to Objections 1, 2, 3 (Thomas Aquinas answer for each objection that they were asked above.

For example 1, QUAESTIONES DISPUTATAE DE ANIMA by Thomas Aquinas https://isidore.co/aquinas/english/QDdeAnima.htm#10

Therefore, you MUST write in the footnote as follow:

If you refer to the section Answer of Article 1, please do: De Anima Art.1, Answer.

If you refer to the section answer to Objections of Article 1,

please do: De Anima Art. 1, Reply 1 or 2 or 3

For example 2 St. Thomas Aquinas, The Summa Theologica, First Part

(https://isidore.co/aquinas/summa/index.html)

Please do: ST I. Question? Art. 1, Answer/ or ST. I. Question? Art 1. Reply 1 or 2 or 3

                        ST I.76.1. answer = (Part I, Question 76, Article 1, answer)

                        ST I.75.2. Reply 3

For example 3, SUMMA CONTRA GENTILES by Thomas Aquinas

(https://isidore.co/aquinas/english/ContraGentiles.htm)

Please do: SCG Bk 1, chapter 1 or 2 or 3

  1. For other materials, please use Chicago style Turabian
  • This paper is chapter 1 of my Ph.D. thesis about Thomas’s View on the Human Soul
  1. Primary texts: Quote text and involve these texts too much.
    1. COMMENTARY ON ARISTOTLE’S DE ANIMA by Thomas Aquinas

Footnote: you do: Thomas’s Commentary Bk.?, lec.? §?

https://isidore.co/aquinas/english/DeAnima.htm#11

  1. QUAESTIONES DISPUTATAE DE ANIMA by Thomas Aquinas https://isidore.co/aquinas/english/QDdeAnima.htm#10
  2. Thomas Aquinas, The Summa Theologica, First Part St. Thomas Aquinas, The Summa Theologica, First Part
  3. SUMMA CONTRA GENTILES by Thomas Aquinas (https://isidore.co/aquinas/summa/index.html)
  1. Secondary source: NOTE THAT WORKING ON PRIMARY SOURCE IS A FIRST REQUIREMENT.

Pasnau, Robert_ Shields, Christopher-The philosophy of Aquinas-Oxford University Press (2016) – focus on chapter on the soul, (attached)

  1. Content of chapter, addressing:
  2. Aristotle’s view on the Soul (COMMENTARY ON ARISTOTLE’S DE ANIMA by Thomas Aquinas) Focus book 2 (quote texts (words of Thomas Aquinas comments on Aristotle) is required)
    1. Definition – soul as a substance
    2. Principle of life
  • Soul as Substantial form
  1. Vegetative/ sensitive soul/ Intellective soul
  2. Unicity of the soul
  1. Thomas Aquinas: focus on

 

  1. QUAESTIONES DISPUTATAE DE ANIMA by Thomas Aquinas https://isidore.co/aquinas/english/QDdeAnima.htm#10
  1. 1: Whether the soul can be a form and a particular thing
  2. 3: Whether there is one possible intellect, or intellective soul, for all men
  3. 4: Whether it is necessary to admit that an agent intellect exists
  4. 5: Whether there is one separately existing agent intellect for all men
  5. 8: Whether the rational soul should be united to a body such as man possesses
  6. 9: Whether the soul is united to corporeal matter through a medium
  7. 10: Whether the soul exists in the whole body and in each of its parts
  8. 11: Whether the rational, sentient, and vegetal souls in man are substantially one and the same
  9. 12: Whether the soul is its powers
  10. 14: Whether the human soul is incorruptible
  11. Summa Theologiae, Part I (https://isidore.co/aquinas/summa/index.html)

Question 76. Of the Union of Body and Soul

Question 78. Of the Specific Powers of the Soul
Question 79. Of the Intellectual Powers

Question 84. How the Soul While United to the Body Understands Corporeal Things beneath It

  1. Summa Contra Gentile: Book 2, chapter 58 (= SCG 2.58)

https://isidore.co/aquinas/english/ContraGentiles2.htm#58

  • Unit of the human soul

In short, Points of the paper is about:

  1. Definition – soul as a substance
  2. Principle of life
  • Substantial form
  1. Soul as Substantial form
  2. Vegetative/ sensitive soul/ Intellective soul
  3. Argument for the Unicity of the soul
  • Argument for Souls as subsistence
  • Argument for Unity of Soul and Body
  1. Human person is composite of soul and body
  2. Argument for soul is incorruptible