Soul, Mind + Body - Aquinas & Anscombe

Question 1

Anscombe

Answer 1

developed Aquinas’ view
says “The soul is not me, It is the principle of life”

Question 2

just as Aristotle says …

Answer 2

• my life needs the body to be animated
• the soul is not material and should be understood as the mind
• it is not something separate from it
• the body is necessary for me to be

Question 3

our actions do not explain actually what we are doing

Answer 3

So if we use the idea of pointing ​

Imagine if I point at the king on a chess board, my bodily action is simply a gesture ​

I may say I am pointing at the King but this only describes how it is working but not why we are pointing . ​

To get the full picture, we need to know why we are pointing

Question 4

the act of “man qua spirit”

Answer 4

the act of human as a whole

the action is not possible without a body

a disembodied soul could not point

it is my body that points, i need both and this bodily act, she calls
and act of “man qua spirit”: the act of humans as a whole