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    The body cannot affect the soul, but the soul can affect ... — Carmelics
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    The body cannot affect the soul, but the soul can affect the body

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    • 1.To feel is a kind of being-affected
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    • 2.The body (corporeal) cannot affect the soul (incorporeal) due to the hierarchy of being
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    • 3.The soul, being at a higher level, can affect the body
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    • 1.Bodily states such as hunger, pain, and disease demonstrably alter cognitive function, emotional states, and rational deliberation.
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    • 2.If the soul's operations are causally dependent on bodily conditions, the body exercises genuine causal influence over the soul.
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    • 3.A hierarchy of being that permits downward causation but categorically forbids upward causation requires independent justification beyond mere ontological rank.
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    • 1.Aristotle's hylomorphic account treats the soul as the form of the body, making soul and body mutually constitutive rather than hierarchically separated substances.
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    • 2.If soul and body are not ontologically distinct substances but aspects of one unified entity, the asymmetric causal claim presupposes a Cartesian dualism Kilwardby has not established.
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    Kilwardby’s theory of sense perception is, on the one hand, Aristotelian because he accepts that our knowledge of the world originates in sense experience; he describes the process of perception as a being-affected. On the other hand, it is Augustinian because he limits the efficient role of the object to the affection of the sense organs; he takes the soul to be the true efficient cause of perception, reacting to the body’s being affected and making in and from itself the images of exterior obj
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