(May 10, 2015 at 5:22 pm)Neimenovic Wrote: What the fuck is a soul anyway?
And why would I want one?
Or why is there a market for it?
And why can't my dog get one? What's with the dog prejudice, for real
"Soul" has been used in a variety of ways. If we look at the ancient Greeks, they seemed to use it (or, rather, in translation in English) as a synonym for "mind." Which they meant as the part of you that thinks and feels. Whenever I have heard someone say that they mean something else (other than "mind") by "soul," they have never been able to give a coherent meaning to the term, nor have they been persuasive that one either has or should want such a useless thing. It seems somewhat analogous to an appendix, except less real.
For my part, I generally use the term as a synonym for "mind," only more poetic.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
