> Vitalism is utterly foreign to anything found in Aquinas or Aristotle.
This is simply not true, and I've quoted the passages from Aquinas that explicitly assert metaphysical differences between living and non-living matter in this very thread.
This is simply not true, and I've quoted the passages from Aquinas that explicitly assert metaphysical differences between living and non-living matter in this very thread.
If you want a tidy introduction to metaphysics of this sort, consider this one [0].
*Assuming by metaphysical you mean formal.