Hylomorphism – Page 2 – The Analytic Thomist

Two Models of The Soul

Here is a major choice point: is the soul part of the whole substance (the human person or organism) or not? What does it mean for something to be part of some whole? Or, equivalently, what does it mean for something to be a whole composed of certain parts? I propose the following necessary conditionContinue reading “Two Models of The Soul”

Master Argument for Prime Matter

[1] A prime material is the same thing as what I’ve called a bit or parcel of prime matter. [2] It might be even simpler to postulate that each prime material bears numerically the same quantitative accident through all changes, but hylomorphists can’t go this far. When a prime material undergoes substantial change across species,Continue reading “Master Argument for Prime Matter”