Delete comment from: Edward Feser
Anonymous is posing articulate challenges to the Perverted Faculty Argument. It solves no problem simply to tell Anonymous that s/he needs to read Feser on the PFA.
As Aristotle and Xenophon point out, humans do not have a distinct breeding season as do many other animals. Humans have rational soul, as do no other animals - at least on A-T assumptions. None of the people replying to Anonymous, as far as I can see, has tried to consider all the work that Eros does in the lives of rational animals. A bodily part that performs a function of nutritive soul can perform another function of rational soul, for a rational end.
I'll note in passing that in Aristotle, there is no such thing as "the sexual faculty." There is the reproductive faculty, τὸ γεννητικόν, and then there are other faculties of soul. More than one faculty can perform their functions via a given organ or system of organs.
Nov 23, 2018, 10:18:18 PM
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