Thomists, how does the soul survive death?

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Catholicism isn’t founded on Aristotle

As previously stated current Catholic Theology certainly still is founded on Thomism and Aquinas on this point believes he is faithfully following the Stagyrite.
Given the huge and inconclusive debates over what Aristotle actually said re eternity of the nous (a mere 3 lines in the whole of his massive corpus) then from a philosophic angle Aquinas has no solid classical backing for his arguments here unlike the rest of his philosophic framework.
That is the only small observation I am making.

You personally mentioned above that you believed Aristotle in Book3 had well established philosophicly Christian beliefs re the soul. That too cannot be vindicated given that translation of those 3 concise lines are probably the most disputed in world history.

I get it you disagree. We will just have to agree to disagree then … just as is the case amongst scholars re those 3 lines of Aristotle whose acrimonious history I see you may not have been familiar with until now.

Nobody is disputing Catholic revealed truth…just the Church’s use of Aristote to back it up with “soul talk”. It is more disputed than his argument for the existence of “God” as the unmoved mover.