Why Would a Biologist Believe in the Soul? w/ Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. & Prof. Jonathan Buttaci

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[@wilhufftarkin8543]

This is the best explanation of the soul I've ever heard.

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[@wilhufftarkin8543]

​@@ThomisticInstitute I mean it! Until I watched this video, I did have a vague and probably somewhat right idea of what the soul is, but it always felt too abstract for me to properly grasp. This explanation made me finally understand it properly. Or in other words, it confirmed something I always knew to be true but I didn't know that that's what's called soul. Basically, soul is what makes so-called emergent properties into actual, real things. Human beings aren't just a collection of atoms, they're, well, human beings. This is where the aristotelian term "form" comes in. I think I finally understand it. Btw, a neat side benefit of this explanation is that it demonstrates in a way that doesn't have to appeal to sin (which secular people don't acknowledge) why abortion is murder. Earlier today, I watched an episode of Law & Order which dealt with an anti-abortion group planting a bomb in an abortion clinic. When the police detectives asked those anti-abortion activists, these activists only talked about how abortion is sin and therefore wrong. I think this kind of arguing is not only bad at convincing non-believers, but I also think it's kind of limited. Personally, I don't think that something is wrong because it's sin, but rather that something is sin because it's wrong. What would you say about that?

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Just started reading ed fesser’s philosophy of mind. This is a wonderful pairing.

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This was interesting. Thanks

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[@JR-tl8tg]

wow! very enlightening appreciate more content like this. thanks Fr

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@@ThomisticInstitute May Our Lord Jesus Christ bless you and your family always Fr.

[@grmalinda6251]

I was thinking that the soul is that part of us that appreciates beauty and asks, What is truth? It also seeks the ultimate good and not simply by instinct but by choice. Professor Buttaci , Fr. Pine or someone, please. I would like to know any feed back as I am not well read, thank you.

[@apeture_explorer4810]

Your right about your intuitions. The will and the intellect are the faculties or power parts of the soul which has no quantitative parts like a body, and is thus "simple" in this way. Both beauty and truth and the good are known by it, and sought after as well.

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@@apeture_explorer4810 yes but animals have will and intellect to some degree but they can't seem to fathom the concept of beauty . It is this part of us that I think must be eternal. Hopefully grasping and not lost.

[@apeture_explorer4810]

@@grmalinda6251 it's not a matter of the category will and intellect as it exists in man and animal alike, but of what kind of nature or soul they belong to. Men and animals share this in common but the end that they have is different, and so is the kind. Men have a rational soul capable of knowing God, animals don't, and are restricted to a very simple set of natural particular goods. Although, it seems like some animals possess basic aesthetic preference. Really, animals are very complicated as a subject, too complicated for me to say much more on.

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Thank you, very helpful.

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[@m4641]

Fast forward 50 years. Fr. Pine, Fr. Groeschel look alike...hmmm...😊

[@spiderqueen601]

Why wouldn’t a biologist believe in the soul? One has nothing to do with another.

[@markbirmingham6011]

20:44 some argue, that to legitimately have biology (as opposed to grounding out in reductionist physics) you need some unifying principle of top down integration. The ‘soul’ in this view is the form of the body/the unifying principle, not some ghost in the machine or separate entity. Some argue that all there really exists are sub atomic particles & that all sciences besides physics are merely stamp collections-convenient ways of cataloging reality but not fundamentally real. So if you want to keep biology (and therefore dogs, trees, cats, and persons) in your ontology you need something like a soul to explain the unity we experience in ourselves & creatures around us. It’s worth noting here too that this traditional understanding of soul would exist in every living being. Each living being having its own soul or organizing unifying principle. This soul is assumed to end in biological death; but some philosophers give arguments for an immortal human soul based the unique powers humans have like conceptualization & rationality. Anyways that’s my understanding

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@@markbirmingham6011 Well said.

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JMJ O HOLY SPIRIT PLEASE HELP US. very interesting topic to listening, there is different education between Authentic and spurious, Authentic education has the power of attracting and touching hearts of the listeners in the other sight spurious, education create some kind of confusing, doubting and boring situation towards the listeners. However anything and everything coming out of finite mind is really useless and unworthy. MAY THE ALMIGHTY AND MERCIFUL GOD AND SAVIOR LORD JESUS CHRIST BLESSED AND OUR BLESSED HOLY MOTHER GUIDE AND GUARD AND PRAY FOR BOTH OF YOU FOREVER AND EVER AMEN.

[@grmalinda6251]

Excuse me, but where did the second paragraph come from? The middle statement?

[@karmasand8630]

@@grmalinda6251 JMJ, O HOLY SPIRIT PLEASE HELP US. Thank you very much for your question, I don't think most of the educated people,( if their education is not authentic), will find difficult to understand THE HOLY SPIRIT, rather I can say, they don't believe it, this is THE TRUTH, TRUTH will never make the listeners and the readers to be feel boring, and unhappy, that is how it is coming. However and whichever the way my comment hurting you I am sorry about it, MAY THE ALMIGHTY AND MERCIFUL AND ONE AND ONLY TRUE GOD JESUS CHRIST BLESS AND OUR BLESSED HOLY MOTHER GUIDE AND GUARD YOU FOREVER AMEN.