(urth) S&S vs. SF in BotNS

[David Stockhoff]

On 12/22/2011 1:14 PM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:
> Gerry Quinn wrote:
>
>> I thought the thinking was that animals do have souls, but not immortal
>> ones.
> Depends on who's doing the thinking.
>
> Aquinas, for example, somewhat-following Aristotle, believed that
> souls came in three varieties:
>
> The _vegetable_ soul, which gives life and the power of growth and reproduction.
> The _animal_ soul, which gives the power of movement.
> And the _rational_ soul, which gives the power of, well, reason.
>
> In Aquinas' schema, only humans have all three souls -- angels do not
> have the first two but are pure rational soul.

Now THAT'S food for thought, in the context of Long Sun.