ABSTRACT
The title of the first article of question seventy-five is surprising: it asks whether the soul is a body. We are so used to the dichotomy of soul and body that the question brings us up short; it seems as strange as to ask whether what is immaterial is material. We may reasonably ask the question whether there is such a thing as a soul – a question to which a materialist would give a negative answer. But surely it would be absurd to give the positive answer, that there are indeed souls, and then go on to add ‘but they are just a special kind of body’.
