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Post by terentiusfaber on Jan 19, 2024 21:33:03 GMT
Perhaps we should consider the fact that the meaning of words for "soul" has shifted with time. Latin anima literally meant breath, and thence the vital principle in a being, its very life, and thence the "soul". Could it be that by animals and plants having souls, the scholastics meant nothing more than that animals and plants have life? If I say that the traditional definition of soul is, 'The soul is the form of the body,' then we see that the scholastics meant more than plants and animals simply possessing life i.e. they are composed of matter and spirit. TBH I think there's more than a dollop of Platonism in there. |
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