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Thomas Aquinas: soul is the form of the body (via Aristotle).
Soul has vegetative, sensitive, and rational powers.
Immortality of the rational soul is demonstrable by reason.
The soul subsists independently and survives bodily death.
Heavily influenced by Aristotle and Christian doctrine.
Debates on when and how the soul is infused in the embryo.