Soul Reflection Paper

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The soul is a developing expression of God; it is our inner being. The soul is immortal on the human being and is a potential intellect. Every person has a soul. Plato believed that the soul emanates from the intelligence, what Aristotle called the nous or the intelligence. The intelligence emanates from the One. Matter highlights and carries through substantial changes. A substance is caused (destroyed) by having matter take on (lose) form. A form is a conceptual property or quality. For example, if we take any property of an object and disconnect it from that object and look at it by itself, you are contemplating a form. In other words, the form is appearance things, something that is alive. "Forms" and "Ideas" are equivalent words. The form of the soul is the intellect, and the soul is a matter of the intellect. Plato believed that the delectable world has “forms” which provided meaning and identity to the individual …show more content…

It's separated in the physical body which gives us shape and form, and the conscious soul or human mind which helps us become aware of our existence through our intellectual mind of reasoning. Like it says in the first paragraph, “the soul is not a body and doesn’t die, undergo corruption, or become destroy” which means that after people die, their soul comes back to the universe, and doesn’t die, which means that the soul is immortal. Immortal means not to suffer death. Death only means the decomposition of the body, but not necessarily the end of a person’s existence. Upon death, the body detaches itself from the physical body and mourns in some region within time and space, and even if the physical body decomposes, the soul survives. There is, only soul, and not souls. People have different souls because we are different. But we are different human beings because we are different compounds of form and

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