a Soul in ev'ry Stone WAS Re: GRGR(29) - The Grid, The Comb

[Terrance]

Paul Mackin wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Terrance wrote:
> 
> > Plato's soul is not the soul in every stone that GR speaks
> > of, quite the contrary. The christian soul is Aristotle's
> > soul,  not found in rocks, so again, not the soul in every
> > stone in GR.
> >
> 
> According to Thomas Aquinas a stone may not have a SOUL, but it has a
> FORM, which is the next best thing. :-)
> 
>                         P.


Yes, Thomas Aquinas took his reality, a noumenal reality,
from Plato, but he took more from Plato's greatest student.
>From Aristotle he derived the doctrine that "nothing can be
reduced from potentiality to actuality, except by something
in a state of actuality." By treating existence itself as an
act, St. Thomas made all existence depend upon God whose
nature is his act of existing, and thus the creation
described in Genesis becomes the work of reflective
principle--functioning that causes functioning. Functioning
is thus, a principle and a cause, and a cause of itself. 


But Daddy, if god made everything, who made god?