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Single Idea 2165
[filed under theme 29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 2. Immortality / b. Soul
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Full Idea
Something is unlikely to be immortal if it's a compound, formed imperfectly from diverse parts.
Gist of Idea
Something is unlikely to be immortal if it is imperfectly made from diverse parts
Source
Plato (The Republic [c.371 BCE], 611b)
Book Ref
Plato: 'Republic', ed/tr. Waterfield,Robin [OUP 1993], p.367
The
19 ideas
with the same theme
[nature of the surviving part of a person]:
8146
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The immortal in us is the part that never sleeps, and shapes our dreams
[Anon (Upan)]
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8150
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The immortal Self and the sad individual self are like two golden birds perched on one tree
[Anon (Upan)]
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24043
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Soul must be immortal, since it continually moves, like the heavens
[Alcmaeon, by Aristotle]
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2165
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Something is unlikely to be immortal if it is imperfectly made from diverse parts
[Plato]
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20830
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Death can't separate soul from body, because incorporeal soul can't unite with body
[Chrysippus]
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5721
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The mind is very small smooth particles, which evaporate at death
[Lucretius]
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5723
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If spirit is immortal and enters us at birth, why don't we remember a previous existence?
[Lucretius]
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21811
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Even the soul is secondary to the Intellectual-Principle [Nous], of which soul is an utterance
[Plotinus]
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18449
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Nature binds or detaches body to soul, but soul itself joins and detaches soul from body
[Porphyry]
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18457
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Individual souls are all connected, though distinct, and without dividing universal Soul
[Porphyry]
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3652
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I can't prove the soul is indestructible, only that it is separate from the mortal body
[Descartes]
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12917
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The soul is indestructible and always self-aware
[Leibniz]
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7649
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There is no clear idea of the soul, which should only refer to our thinking part
[La Mettrie]
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20264
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The easy and graceful aspects of a person are called 'soul', and inner awkwardness is called 'soulless'
[Nietzsche]
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4159
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The human body is the best picture of the human soul
[Wittgenstein]
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23765
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The soul is the intrinsic value of a human
[Weil]
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9292
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The Soul has no particular capacity (in the way thinking belongs to the mind)
[Teichmann]
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9294
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No individuating marks distinguish between Souls
[Teichmann]
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5352
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The idea of the soul gets some support from the scientific belief in essential 'natural kinds'
[Flanagan]
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