![]() ![]() vi, 6) that the soul "is simple in comparison with the body, inasmuch as it does not occupy space by its bulk." On the contrary, Augustine says (De Trin. ![]() Since, therefore, the soul moves the body, it seems that the soul must be a body. Further, between the mover and the moved there must be contact. If, therefore, the soul were not a body, it could not have knowledge of corporeal things. But there can be no likeness of a body to an incorporeal thing. Further, all knowledge is caused by means of a likeness. ![]() viii, 6 and this does not appear to be the case in the movement of an animal, which is caused by the soul. Secondly, because if there be anything that moves and is not moved, it must be the cause of eternal, unchanging movement, as we find proved Phys. Nor does it move unless moved.įirst, because seemingly nothing can move unless it is itself moved, since nothing gives what it has not for instance, what is not hot does not give heat. For the soul is the moving principle of the body.
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