Chapter 10, Rest of Question LXXV & LXXVI Summary and Analysis

Many of the questions in the Summa Theologica are long and complex. In this case, the chapter begins with a question that was begun in the preceding summary chapter. Question LXXV On Man who is Composed of a Spiritual and a Corporeal Substance: And First, Concerning What Belongs to the Essence of the Soul. There are seventeen Articles to address this question. Aspects of this include: how the soul exists in relation with the human body, differences between the nature of both the soul and bodily attributes of nonhuman animals. Again, during this part of the book, the truth or perception is that the living soul is the mind intimately associated with the body. Aquinas did not have the advantage of contemporary neuroscience, but fortunately readers of the 2000 AD Millennium do...