Abstract Aquinas's thoughts about the human soul present us with a puzzle. On one hand, Thomas has been applauded within analytic tradition as an anti‐dualistic thinker, who emphasises animal nature of beings and denies that there could be disembodied persons. Yet on other hand he holds, faithful Catholic theologian, survives death, maintains post‐mortem soul, prior to its reunification body is...

I entered the Jesuit order in 1933. I was then 20. Later my superior asked me: "Would you like t o become a professor?" "In no way!" My wish was t o be a missionary to take care of the poor. "Good. You'll do it, all the same." By 1941, when Italy entered the Second World War, I had been assigned t o work towards a Ph.D. in Thomistic philosophy at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. My ...