The Individuation Of The Soul After Death | Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P.

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🗓️ 18 July 2022

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This talk was given on May 27th, 2022 at the 11th Annual Aquinas Philosophy Workshop on Aquinas on the Soul. The handout for the talk can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/4nfcx8vp For information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P., is the Director of the Thomistic Institute and Assistant Professor in Dogmatic Theology at the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. He holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, a Ph.L. from the School of Philosophy of the Catholic University of America, and a doctorate in Sacred Theology from the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. He entered the Order of Preachers in 2001, after having practiced constitutional law for several years as a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice. He has also taught at The Catholic University of America Law School and at Providence College. He is the author of The Trinitarian Christology of St. Thomas Aquinas (Oxford University Press, 2016).

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0:00.0	This talk is brought to you by the Thomistic Institute.
0:03.3	For more talks like this, visit us at tamisticinstitute.org.
0:12.2	St. Thomas Aquinas on the individuation of the human soul after death.
0:18.4	St. Thomas Aquinas' account of the individuation of the human soul after death stands at a critical intersection in his philosophy,
0:27.5	both in the public controversies of his day and as a subject within his metaphysical thought.
0:33.6	In Aquinas' lifetime, a serious debate raged around the philosophical understanding
0:40.7	of the human soul. On one side, Aquinas opposed the so-called radical aristotelians.
0:48.5	They're also known as the Latin oferoists, figures like seizure of Burbank.
1:00.3	He opposed them and their contention that there was only one immaterial soul and one possible intellect for all human beings.
1:03.1	And on the other side, he opposed certain figures of the theology faculty of the University
1:09.3	of Paris, who saw a danger to the Catholic
1:12.4	faith in Aquinas' adoption of an Aristotelian hyalomorphism. So early in his career, Aquinas
1:20.5	developed his own personal and actually quite original anthropology, where he applied Aristotle's hylomorphic theory to the human being in fullest measure,
1:33.1	while at the same time maintaining the immaterial and subsistent character of the soul.
1:39.4	So Aquinas did not hold a view found among other thinkers, influenced Plato that viewed man as a composite or as composed of two substances,
1:51.0	one spiritual and immortal and the other corporeal and material.
1:58.0	One of Aquinas' great achievements was to show how the human being, how man, is a
2:05.5	single substance composed of soul and body, which are related as substantial form to its proper
2:13.4	matter. And we've been hearing a lot about that from Father Brent already. So unlike a platonic
2:20.0	anthropology, the soul, according to Aquinas, is a part of a composite substance or a psychosomatic
2:28.9	unity, as Father James was just saying. It's not an independent substance of itself.
2:37.0	Yet Aquinas also made his own the Aristotelian notion of the soul.
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