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40 ST. AUGUSTINE 7. WHAT DOES 'SOUL' PROPERLY REFER TO IN A LIVING BEING! In speaking of soul, 2 one sometimes understands it to involve mind,3 as when we say that a man consists of a soul and a body. At other times, mind is excluded from the meaning of the term. But when mind is excluded from its meaning, soul is understood in relation to those activities which we have in common with the lower animals. For animals lack reason, which is always a feature of mind. 8. IS THE SOUL SELF-MOVING? One is aware that the soul moves of itself when one IS aware of the will within oneself. For if we will, no one else wills for us. And this movement of the soul is spontaneous, for this has been granted to the soul by God. But this movement is not from place to place as is that of the body, for movement from place to place is proper to the body. And though it is, nevertheless, by the will, i.e., by that movement which is not in place, that the soul moves its own body from place to place, it does not follow from this that the soul itself ar~o moves from place to place. Thus we see that something is moved by a hinge through a considerable distance, and yet the hinge itself is not moved in place. 9. CAN TRUTH BE PERCEIVED BY THE BODILY SENSES? Everything which the bodily sense touches and which is called sensible is constantly changing.! Thus, when the hairs 1 Cf. DT 15.1.1 (PL 42.1057). See below, Q. 27, n. 2. 2 anima. 3 mente. Concerning this Q., Augustine says in R 1.26 (PL 32.624): "I have said: 'Everything which the bodily sense touches and which is called ...

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