This seminar will be led by Dr. James DeMasi.

Last seminar, we discussed the long and complicated interpretive history of the notion of Imago Dei–Human beings as the image and likeness of God. This week, we want to dig deeper into the idea of the soul: what is a soul? How would we go about defining it? What determines whether a being has an immortal or a mortal soul? Do all human beings have souls? When? Using Aristotle’s hylomorphic universe, Thomas Aquinas drilled into the philosophical complexity of what it means to call human beings “Ensouled bodies.”

Reading: Aquinas’s Commentary on Aristotle’s De Anima. [Selections]