I don't understand two things

[STT]

Something that is incorruptible can be made to not exist only by God, for God is the sustainer of it.

First, that is not an answer to my question. Second, what is the point of Aquinas when he argues about the ration soul immortality because it is immaterial?

 

[Vico]

Vico:

Something that is incorruptible can be made to not exist only by God, for God is the sustainer of it.

First, that is not an answer to my question. Second, what is the point of Aquinas when he argues about the ration soul immortality because it is immaterial?

What is the question. The first time I could not make sense out of the sentence without guessing.

Aquinas accepts the immortality of the soul based upon faith. All his rational arguments are about incorruptibility. The soul is spiritual, so it is immaterial. The body is not spiritual, so it is corporeal. But the body and soul together are necessary for a human person.

 

[STT]

What is the question. The first time I could not make sense out of the sentence without guessing.

I asked whether something which doesn’t corrupt lives forever? Yes or no.

Aquinas accepts the immortality of the soul based upon faith. All his rational arguments are about incorruptibility. The soul is spiritual, so it is immaterial. The body is not spiritual, so it is corporeal. But the body and soul together are necessary for a human person.

Yes, he argues that the rational soul is immortal because it is immaterial. He is trying to make a point. Do you agree with his point?

 

[Vico]

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Yes, he argues that the rational soul is immortal because it is immaterial. He is trying to make a point. Do you agree with his point?

If you read it, he only reasons about incorruptibility not immortality, but does use both words in the same sentence sometimes (with and) so he is not using them interchangeably everywhere. He says:

• We must assert that the intellectual principle which we call the human soul is incorruptible (Summa Theologiae, I, Q75, A6)

He bases the immateriality of the human intellect is based upon the resurrection of the body.