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    If Scotus does not acknowledge a forma corporeitatis over... — Carmelics
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    If Scotus does not acknowledge a forma corporeitatis over and above the forms of the bodily organs, then a corpse is not the same body as the body of the organism.

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    • 1.Scotus treats each organ of a living body as a substance with its own substantial form.
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    • 2.Without a forma corporeitatis unifying the body, the identity of the body depends solely on the substantial forms of its organs.
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    • 3.When an organism dies, the composite body as a unified entity ceases to exist even if the organs persist temporarily.
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    • 1.Aquinas's hylomorphism holds that a single substantial form (the soul) gives both life and corporeal unity, making forma corporeitatis redundant.
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    • 2.If the soul is the sole substantial form, the body's identity persists through death as the same matter losing its organizing principle, not as a numerically distinct entity.
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    • 3.Scotus need not posit forma corporeitatis to secure bodily identity at resurrection; material continuity of prime matter can ground sameness without additional forms.
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    • 1.Buridan and late-medieval nominalists argued that functional unity suffices for bodily identity without requiring a separate unifying form over organs.
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    • 2.If bodily identity is grounded in relational organization rather than a metaphysical form, a corpse can be the same body in a dispositional or structural sense even post-mortem.
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    Scotus’s view is more complicated still, for he treats each organ of a living body as a substance (a composite of matter and substantial form). Whether Scotus also acknowledges a forma corporeitatis over and above the forms of the bodily organs is disputed (see Ward 2014, 90–93). If he does not, he must accept the unpalatable conclusion that a corpse is not the same body as the body of the organism. He can, however, avoid the conclusion that no accidents of that body remain: any accidents that i
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