Relationship Between Body and Soul According to Saint Thomas: An Obsolete Issue?
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Francisco Rego [1]
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[1] Universidad Nacional de Cuyo
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- Localización: Psychiatry and Neuroscience Update: From Epistemology to Clinical Psychiatry – Vol. IV / Pascual Angel Gargiulo (ed. lit.), Humberto Luis Mesones Arroyo (ed. lit.), 2021, ISBN 978-3-030-61721-9, págs. 73-88
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
In spite of the opinion of materialistic thinkers, from ancient times, the soul was understood as the principle of life, and far from restricting its activity to purely vegetative and sentient functions, it was extended to the rational field as well. For better understanding, see what happens to a tree leaf, when at the end of its cycle of life, it falls and changes color from bright green to grey and turns brittle. It happens because it is a leaf deprived of life. And the same thing happens with the human body when it stops having the vital impulse of its own soul, initiating an irreversible corruption process. This is a point of view that gives way to the reasonableness of the human existence and to the justification of the question because of the relationship that soul and body have between them. Said briefly, the soul, although not understood as a sensitive reality, does not have to be considered as a nonexistent or mythological reality but also as a real order that links to the body as substantial formal essential principle. It determines the body in the order of being and the way of being, that is, the soul makes man to be and to be what he is and, at the same time, enlivens him and founds all his spiritual and organic activities.
