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Single Idea 4159
[filed under theme 29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 2. Immortality / b. Soul
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Full Idea
The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
Gist of Idea
The human body is the best picture of the human soul
Source
Ludwig Wittgenstein (Philosophical Investigations [1952], II.iv)
Book Ref
Wittgenstein,Ludwig: 'Philosophical Investigations', ed/tr. Anscombe,E. [Blackwell 1972], p.178
A Reaction
Nice. How did we imagine the soul before reading that remark? My soul requires fingernails and eyelids in order to fulfil its essential nature.
The
19 ideas
with the same theme
[nature of the surviving part of a person]:
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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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