Anonymous
10/29/2025, 10:30:15 AM
No.24838490
>>24838459
The argument lies in this.
What is the nature of the soul?
Is the soul unconditioned (it does not take upon its own attributes)
And plato, Aristotle, plotinus and early christian writers did wrestle and posit a 'hierarchy' of sorts on the 'triplicate' part of the Soul. One irrational, instinctive, reactive, clinging and 'lost' so to speak in multiplicity or the 'world', appetitive. One of spirit and the cultivation of virtue and can help or hinder with the guidance of reason, and the latter rational.
But this irrationality wasnt a denial but a potential for said being to cultivate rationality and reason to 'guide' the soul towards Itself and Nous.
The idea of god creating a 'soullless' husk of corpse will run into deeper problems and contradictions.
Descartes seems to mistake function with essence.
Im not a huge animal lover by the way but irrationality, instincts themselves were not considered an absence of the Soul, merely potential. For an animal mm.
The argument lies in this.
What is the nature of the soul?
Is the soul unconditioned (it does not take upon its own attributes)
And plato, Aristotle, plotinus and early christian writers did wrestle and posit a 'hierarchy' of sorts on the 'triplicate' part of the Soul. One irrational, instinctive, reactive, clinging and 'lost' so to speak in multiplicity or the 'world', appetitive. One of spirit and the cultivation of virtue and can help or hinder with the guidance of reason, and the latter rational.
But this irrationality wasnt a denial but a potential for said being to cultivate rationality and reason to 'guide' the soul towards Itself and Nous.
The idea of god creating a 'soullless' husk of corpse will run into deeper problems and contradictions.
Descartes seems to mistake function with essence.
Im not a huge animal lover by the way but irrationality, instincts themselves were not considered an absence of the Soul, merely potential. For an animal mm.