Lucretius
Lucretius believes that there is a difference between the body and the spirit. He believes that both are material, and that the spirit is mortal and separate organ extending throughout the body. We could think of this in terms of the nervous system, in ever part of our body, from head to toe. "Is part of man, no less than hand or foot or eyes are parts of a whole living creature. (Lucretius, pg.69) He believes body and spirit make up one system, both are interconnected, interdependent, one keeps the other alive. "for the two are interlocked by common roots and cannot be torn apart without manifest disaster. As easily could the scent be torn out of lumps of incense without destroying their nature as mind and spirit could be abstracted from t
Thomas Aquinas says, "the intellectual principe which we call the mind or the intellect has an operation 'per se' apart from the body. (Lucretius, pg 75) Thomas Aquinas agrees with this view. Lucretius believes that there is no afterlife, and therefore there is nothing to be afraid of. We will be worried that if we do not behave, we will not be rewarded in the afterlife. A human being is both a soul and a body. ) Lucretius believes that both the body and soul are material, however, Thomas Aquinas believes that the body is material but the soul is form. Thomas Aquinas does not believe the soul is material. He says, you are your soul and you live in your body. Lucretius' arguments as to why the soul is mortal are, 1- the reason the body moves is because of the soul, something that moves must be a body, so the soul must be a body and 2- knowledge, if by this we know material things then the knowledge we know must be material, 3- for one thing to move another, they must be in contact. Now only that which susists can have an operation 'per se'. Thomas Aquinas however, believes that the soul will live on after the body dies. Aquinas also says that the human soul is subsistent, in that is operates apart from the body in at least one way, and that is intellect: thinking, free choice and will. Aquinas, question) Lucretius believes that there is no afterlife. He claims that the human soul is incorruptible, it will not go out of existence. He says religion wants us to think there is an afterlife, so that we will be scared in this life.
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