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    It is not the case that Albert the Great's and Aquinas's positions on the soul are in conflict.

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    • 1.Albert's concept of 'perfectio' for the soul is functionally equivalent to Aquinas's 'forma substantialis' when both are read within the Aristotelian hylomorphic tradition.
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    • 2.Terminological divergence between scholastics does not entail doctrinal conflict if the underlying metaphysical commitments yield identical accounts of soul-body unity.
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    • 3.Both Albert and Aquinas deny Platonic dualism and affirm that the soul is the single principle of life and activity in a human being, marking substantive agreement.
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    • 1.Historians such as Bernhard Geyer and Irven Resnick have argued that Albert's mature works progressively converge with Aquinas on hylomorphic soul-body composition.
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    • 2.If Albert's position evolved across his corpus, attributing a single fixed view to him that conflicts with Aquinas commits the fallacy of ignoring diachronic development in a thinker's work.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Albert holds that the soul is the perfection of the human body but not its intrinsic substantial form.
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    • 2.Aquinas holds that the soul is the intrinsic substantial form of the human body.
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    • 3.A thing cannot both be and not be the intrinsic substantial form of a body.
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