He thinks the soul’s condition after death is unnatural to it and that the soul will be unable to exercise many of its powers in that condition. In a way that’s good news, since it gives him a sound basis for insisting on the need for eventual bodily resurrection, which is, of course, standard Christian doctrine. But he still needs to persuade us that the soul can somehow avoid vanishing between the moment of bodily death and the future time when it gets its body back.5 Here he points to Aristotle’s claim that intellectual thought is a purely immaterial process requiring no bodily organ. Were
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