RE: Disproving The Soul
August 16, 2014 at 4:10 am
(This post was last modified: August 16, 2014 at 4:14 am by Michael.)
Baqal, I think you most have missed my opening paragraph, because you too seem to pursuing, and dismissing, an Aristotelean view of the soul, from which I distanced myself in the opening paragraph of my post ...
Firstly, the OP seems to adopt an Aristotelean model of soul, that a soul is something we have. I would say the biblical meaning is much more that we 'are' souls; that 'soul' describes the essence of our identity.
But I am intrigued by your idea that nothing immaterial exists. This would seem to be self-refuting, as that very proposition is immaterial and therefore does not exist. This, of course, was the reason that the logical positivism movement collapsed; it pulled the rug out form under itself in just the same way.
Firstly, the OP seems to adopt an Aristotelean model of soul, that a soul is something we have. I would say the biblical meaning is much more that we 'are' souls; that 'soul' describes the essence of our identity.
But I am intrigued by your idea that nothing immaterial exists. This would seem to be self-refuting, as that very proposition is immaterial and therefore does not exist. This, of course, was the reason that the logical positivism movement collapsed; it pulled the rug out form under itself in just the same way.
