summa-contra-gentiles

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THE SUMMA CONTRA GENTILES
fore the sensitive soul has not a distinct being from the
animate body.
Further. Although movement is the common act of
mover and moved, yet
it is one operation to cause moyement.and.aiiothQr.to
receive movement; hence we have two
predicamentsy action and passion.^ Accordingly,
if in
sensing the sensitive soul is in the position of agent, and
the body in that of patient, the operation of the soul will
be other than the operation of the body. Consequently the
sensitive soul will have an operation proper to it : and
therefore it will have its
proper subsisteng,e;...He:jgiC-e when
the_body_ is destroyed it will_not..cease.tO, exiiitj^.-Therefare^
sensitive souls even of irrational animals will be immortal :
which seems improbable. And yet it is not outpl keeping
wi th Plato'^ Q pi pion
. But there will be a place for inquiring
into this further on.^
Moreover. The movable does not derive jts species from
its movex.. Consequently
if the soul is not united to the
body except as mover lb movable, the body and its parts
do not take their species from the soul. Wherefore at the
soul's departure, the body and its parts will remain of the
same species. Yet this is clearly false for : flesh, bone,
hands, and like parts, after the soul's departure, are so
called only equivocally,^ since none of these parts retains
its
proper operation that results from the species. Therefore
the soul is not united to the body merely as mover to
movable, or as man to his clothes.
Further. The^niovahle^hasjTptbei^r^^ jts jnoyer,
but only movernent . if
Consequently the soul be united to
the body merely as its mover, the body will indeed be
moved by the soul, but will not have being through
it.
But in the living thing to live is to he.* Therefore the
body would not live through the soul.
Again The_moyable js, neither generated through the
.
mover's, application to it
nqr^ corrupted by bein^ separated^
fromjt, since the movable depends not on the mover for its
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Categ. ii. 6. ' Ch. Ixxxii.
r De Part. Animal, i.
* 2 De Anima iv. 4.