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

[Paul Mackin]

On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Terrance wrote:
> 
> 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?
> 

I'm guessing that if God is pure Act then any further Act
(actualizing) would be superfluous. But what I wanted to report was
that while looking in the Summa Theologica (for the real answer) I came
upon a section where St. T. quotes Aristotle concerning stones and
souls--believe it or not. Not the soul in the stone unfortunately but
visa versa. "The stone is not in the soul but the likeness
is." Again unfortunately they are talking about human souls not stone
souls.

			P.