ABSTRACT

Medieval thinkers hold that a human soul is simple. This, they think, must be so because the human soul is incorruptible and anything that has parts is corruptible. 1 Yet it is also maintained that there is a vast ontological divide between God and His creation. Only God can be absolutely simple. Created beings, including so-called “simple substances” such as angels, must have some sort of complexity. But where there is complexity, there are parts. Hence, human souls ought to have parts.