Catholic Word of the Day: INDIVIDUATION, 01-06-10

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INDIVIDUATION

The basic philosophical reason that distinguishes a creature both from the universal or class to which he or she (or it) belongs and from every other individual in that category. Among human beings, their individuation is mainly due to the fact that each one has his own numerically distinctive, separately created immortal soul.

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Thus a human clone would not be an individual because they do not have a soul. Am I correct here?

Also this is what we (Catholics) all say about the aborted babies. They are individual people/babies with an immortal soul.

Comments, anyone?

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Comments, anyone?

Yeah. Ping me when the word for the day is "Subsidiarity."

Better yet, ping the USCCB.

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Casualism	Victim	Frustulum
Unity	Isaiah	Episcopal Curia
Wake	Canonical Age	Paschal Candle
Doctrinal Demythology	Pro Armenis	Lamb
Responsory	Dogma	Roman Martyrology
Greek Rites	Anglican Orders	Attritionism
Ciborium	Paenitemini	Amice
Feast of the Visitation	Our Lady Protectress of Rome (Salus Populi Romani)	Tosefta
Györ	Poverty of Sharing	Sollicitudo Omnium Ecclesiarium
Penalty, Penitential	Intuition	Witness
Sanctuary of [Our] Sorrowful Mother	Basilians	Evil Habits
Orate Fratres	Codex Sinaiticus	Clothing of Religious
Unam Sanctam	Eckhartism	Christendom
Herodias	Tower of Babel	Tabula Rasa
Jeronymites/Heironymites	Individuation

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a human clone would not be an individual because they do not have a soul

I've wondered about that, too ... if it's the same person, how can it be a different person?

However, I think the reasoning is that, in spite of efforts to produce a genetically-identical copy, there is always change or damage to the DNA, thus producing a unique person.

We can be sure, I think, that God will not permit there to be "people" walking around who do not have souls.

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You missed the already posted Subsidiarity

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Earlier Catholic Words of the Day

Casualism	Victim	Frustulum
Unity	Isaiah	Episcopal Curia
Wake	Canonical Age	Paschal Candle
Doctrinal Demythology	Pro Armenis	Lamb
Responsory	Dogma	Roman Martyrology
Greek Rites	Anglican Orders	Attritionism
Ciborium	Paenitemini	Amice
Feast of the Visitation	Our Lady Protectress of Rome (Salus Populi Romani)	Tosefta
Györ	Poverty of Sharing	Sollicitudo Omnium Ecclesiarium
Penalty, Penitential	Intuition	Witness
Sanctuary of [Our] Sorrowful Mother	Basilians	Evil Habits
Orate Fratres	Codex Sinaiticus	Codex Sinaiticus
Unam Sanctam	Eckhartism	Christendom
Herodias	Tower of Babel	Tabula Rasa
Jeronymites/Heironymites	Individuation