Albert follows him by outlining two ways of thinking about the soul (58; see also 12). On the one hand, there is Aristotle’s idea that the soul is the form of the body, in the sense that it is the body’s act or perfection (46). On the other hand, there is the soul considered as a substance in its own right which can even survive bodily death. As observed a generation earlier by John Blund (Chapter 24), these two perspectives belong respectively to the physicist and the metaphysician (36). In physics or natural philosophy we grasp the soul through the activities it manifests in the body. In
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