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Full Idea
While I am alive I have nothing to thank for my individuality except my soul, whereas my body is just the likeness that I carry around with me.
Clarification
'Soul' is the Greek word 'psuché', which covers mind and consciousness and life
Gist of Idea
My individuality is my soul, which carries my body around
Source
Plato (The Laws [c.348 BCE], 959a)
Book Ref
Plato: 'The Laws', ed/tr. Saunders,Trevor J [Penguin 1970], p.512
| 276 | My individuality is my soul, which carries my body around [Plato] |
| 3609 | I am a thinking substance, which doesn't need a place or material support [Descartes] |
| 5627 | I can express the motion of my body in a single point, but that doesn't mean it is a simple substance [Kant] |
| 16002 | The self is a combination of pairs of attributes: freedom/necessity, infinite/finite, temporal/eternal [Kierkegaard] |
| 15811 | I am picked out uniquely by my individual essence, which is 'being identical with myself' [Chisholm] |