Grace’s Reviews > The Pocket Aquinas: Selections from the Writings of St. Thomas > Status Update

Okay no because he rejects the Platonic depiction of the soul as a mere mover. Interesting.

Aquinas says the body is the act of the soul. Would that be functionally different from Lewis’ theory that we are souls but have bodies?

This is a slog, but at least he’s not a total fascist.

“There is no falsity in the statement that the mode of the knower in performing the act of understanding is different from the mode of the thing in real existence, for the thing understood is in the one who is understanding according to the manner of the intellect, and not materially, according to the manner of the material thing.” Hello, Jacques.