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To: skinowski who wrote (469660)2/3/2012 6:52:33 PM
From: Tom Clarke1 Recommendation  Respond to of 794015
 
Aquinas was influenced by Aristotle

>>Aristotle (384 – 322 BC) believed a fetus in early gestation has the soul of a vegetable, then of an animal, and only later became "animated" with a human soul by "ensoulment". For him, ensoulment occurred 40 days after conception for male fetuses and 90 days after conception for female fetuses,[3][4] the stage at which, it was held, movement is first felt within the womb and pregnancy was certain

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