If the soul were subsistent, it would have some operation apart from the body. But it has no
operation apart from the body, not even that of understanding: for the act of understanding
does not take place without a phantasm, which cannot exist apart from the body. Therefore the
human soul is not something subsistent. —Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica
What will be an ideal response?
ANS:This
passage from Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica contains an argument. The
issue is whether the human soul is something subsistent. The conclusion is that the human
soul is not something subsistent. The first premise is that if the soul were subsistent, it would
have some operation apart from the body. The second premise is that the soul has no operation
apart from the body, not even that of understanding.
This passage contains a subargument. The intermediate conclusion is that the soul has
no operation apart from the body, not even that of understanding. The premise is that the act
of understanding does not take place without a phantasm, which cannot exist apart from the
body.
? If the soul were subsistent, it would have some operation apart from the body. But ? it has
no operation apart from the body, not even that of understanding: for ? the act of
understanding does not take place without a phantasm, which cannot exist apart from the
body. Therefore ? the human soul is not something subsistent.
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