RE: Arguments against Soul
February 7, 2020 at 7:39 am
(This post was last modified: February 7, 2020 at 7:40 am by Belacqua.)
(February 6, 2020 at 9:17 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:Quote:Nihil est in intellectu quod non sit prius in sensu.
I find it somewhat odd that you'd use one of the core doctrines of empiricism to argue for the existence of an immaterial soul.
Boru
To be clear, I'm not arguing for the existence of an immaterial soul. The quote is meant to show that for Aquinas, knowledge comes in through the senses, and that the contents of the intellect depend on the body's sense organs.
People here hate it when I point this out, but it's true anyway: it was the Thomist reintroduction of Aristotle into Europe that paved the way for empirical science.
The core tenets that 1) God has made the world operate according to regular laws, and 2) these laws are knowable through the senses, were the philosophical underpinnings for the beginning of empirical research.