Fw: [Buddha-l] Moment of individuation [was: This pope] (Ziobro II)

[Richard P. Hayes]

On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 15:19 -0400, Stanley J. Ziobro II wrote:

> The Catholic view is that animals have souls, they just are not rational
> or intellectual souls.

Is this due to borrowing from Aristotle, who claimed that vegetables
have souls, that animals have both a vegetative and an appetitive anima
and that human beings have a vegetative soul, an appetitive soul and a
rational soul?

I have not seen much evidence that human beings have rational souls, but
I guess this is where dogma comes in to save the bacon (which, alas,
requires killing the pig).

-- 
Richard Hayes
Department of Philosophy
University of New Mexico