What is a Soul?
by Dr. Edward Feser
Filed under Anthropology
What is a soul? Or to be more precise, what is a human soul? Or to be even more precise, what is a human being? For that is really the key question; and I sometimes think that the biggest obstacle to understanding what the soul is is the word “soul.” People too readily read into it various erroneous notions (erroneous from an Aristotelian-Thomistic point of view, anyway)—ghosts, ectoplasm, or Cartesian immaterial substances. Even the Aristotelian characterization of the... Read More
