S&S vs. SF in BotNS

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 22 Dec 2011, 18:14 · from 2011-December.txt.gz

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From: danldo at gmail.com (Dan'l Danehy-Oakes)
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 10:14:36 -0800
Subject: (urth) S&S vs. SF in BotNS
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Gerry Quinn wrote:

> I thought the thinking was that animals do have souls, but not immortal
> ones.

Depends on who's doing the thinking.

Aquinas, for example, somewhat-following Aristotle, believed that
souls came in three varieties:

The _vegetable_ soul, which gives life and the power of growth and reproduction.
The _animal_ soul, which gives the power of movement.
And the _rational_ soul, which gives the power of, well, reason.

In Aquinas' schema, only humans have all three souls -- angels do not
have the first two but are pure rational soul.

-- 
Dan'l Danehy-Oakes

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