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    Humans either have several souls, or one substantially co... — Carmelics
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    Humans either have several souls, or one substantially composite soul whose parts are 'incomplete' substances that combine to form one 'perfected' soul.

    Consciousness & MindPersonal Identity
    Overall Strength:70%
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    • A human being has at least one substantial form rooted in matter and another substantial form that comes from an external source.
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    • 1.Aquinas argued that a single substantial form (anima intellectiva) suffices to account for all vital operations in a human being.
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    • 2.Positing multiple souls or composite soul-parts violates Ockham's razor by multiplying entities beyond explanatory necessity.
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    • 3.If the intellective soul can perform vegetative and sensitive functions, no additional soul-forms are required to explain human unity.
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    • 1.Aristotle's De Anima establishes that the soul is the form of the body, making it ontologically simple and indivisible as a unitary actuality.
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    • 2.An 'incomplete substance' that combines with others to form a perfected substance is not a substance at all, but a part—contradicting hylomorphic categories.
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    Further reflection, however, shows us that a soul (and especially a human soul) is a complicated thing. It has a variety of capacities, which seem to be really distinct from one another and possibly from the soul itself. Some of these capacities even seem to be contrary to one another. For example, a soul seems to be capable of psychic conflict. There is a lot of pressure then put on this putatively simple, yet obviously complicated thing, and therefore it is hardly surprising that there is a ro
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