Sentence examples for parcels of matter from inspiring English sources

Then a human body could be, like other parcels of matter, only contingently enformed.

These atoms are to be understood as infinitely small parcels of matter which have properties.

But though they are not real as kinds, the individual parcels of matter that we classify in these ways are perfectly real.

Most individual parcels of matter, however, become different individuals if they change any of their parts; although we have seen that this does not apply to living things, where there seems to be a metaphysical component called sameness of life.

When the soul is separated from the body, then, what is left is not a body, but just a parcel of matter arranged corpse-wise.

Scotus follows Aristotle in identifying matter as what persists through substantial change and substantial form as what makes a given parcel of matter the definite, unique, individual substance that it is.

This was how Aristotle thought that he was able to explain the connection of soul to body: a particular soul exists as the organizing principle in a particular parcel of matter.

We can very easily see the motivation for the view by recalling that a substantial form is supposed to be what makes a given parcel of matter the definite, unique, individual substance that it is.

It would then follow that when a human being dies, and the soul ceases to inform that parcel of matter, what is left is not the same body that existed just before death.

There is the "form of the body" (forma corporeitatis) that makes a given parcel of matter to be a definite, unique, individual human body, and the "animating form" or soul, which makes that human body alive.

Thus, in the words of Jacques Maritain: "Whenever we say that man is a person, we mean that he is more than a mere parcel of matter, more than an individual element in nature, such as is an atom, a blade of grass, a fly or an elephant…Man is an animal and an individual, but unlike other animals or individuals".