{"id":553,"date":"2024-09-14T16:55:37","date_gmt":"2024-09-14T16:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/09\/14\/are-the-souls-of-brutes-subsistent\/"},"modified":"2024-09-14T16:55:37","modified_gmt":"2024-09-14T16:55:37","slug":"are-the-souls-of-brutes-subsistent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/09\/14\/are-the-souls-of-brutes-subsistent\/","title":{"rendered":"Are the Souls of Brutes Subsistent?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Aquinas says No but his argument is inconclusive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"><em>Substack<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/williamfvallicella\/p\/are-the-souls-of-brutes-subsistent?r=f3tzc&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;showWelcomeOnShare=true\">latest<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18.6667px;\">Reader Zacary writes,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">I am just a layman who likes studying Aristotelian and Thomistic philosophy, and recently I haven\u2019t been studying the issue of animals in the afterlife. I stumbled across your post from many, many years ago (all the way back in 2009!) that was about the unity of consciousness argument and the subsistence of animal souls.&#0160;<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Thank you for writing, Zacary.&#0160; That post from 2009 left a lot to be desired, so I rewrote it almost completely and published <a href=\"https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/williamfvallicella\/p\/are-the-souls-of-brutes-subsistent?r=f3tzc&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;showWelcomeOnShare=true\">the result <\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">over at <em>Substack<\/em>. I have no time now to respond&#0160; to the rest of what you wrote, but if you read the <em>Substack<\/em> entry and have questions or objections I will try to answer them here.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aquinas says No but his argument is inconclusive. Substack latest. Reader Zacary writes, I am just a layman who likes studying Aristotelian and Thomistic philosophy, and recently I haven\u2019t been studying the issue of animals in the afterlife. I stumbled across your post from many, many years ago (all the way back in 2009!) that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/09\/14\/are-the-souls-of-brutes-subsistent\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Are the Souls of Brutes Subsistent?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[329,57,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-aquinas-and-thomism","category-soul-and-body"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}