While Plato’s view of man is a soul using a body, Aquinas, following Aristotle’s conception of man, asserted that man is an embodied soul – that is human beings have a soul but it is not a body and the body isn’t the soul as well yet they are substantially united with one another. Soul, on one hand is the one which animates the human body. And this soul according to Aquinas is spiritual, intangible, and ethereal. The body, on the other hand is material, actual – that is, it exists completely. However, body and soul for Aquinas unite with one another when this soul, animates the human body. For example, a soul cannot perceive sensation without the body because perception uses the senses of our bodies; therefore, soul is the principle of the
