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

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"Richard P. Hayes" <rhayes at unm.edu> wrote:

>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?

Aquinas' teaching is based on Aristotle.  One of the questions Aquinas responds to is whether the human person has one soul or a multiplicity of souls.  His conclusion is that the human person has one soul, the rational, and that the vegetative and appetitive functions are virtually contained in the subsistence of the rational.  The vegetative and appetitive operations continue to function in the manners proper to each, but these operations are now powers of the rational soul.

Stan Ziobro

>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
>
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