RE: Arguments against Soul
September 21, 2019 at 8:01 am
(This post was last modified: September 21, 2019 at 8:05 am by Belacqua.)
(September 21, 2019 at 7:53 am)Jehanne Wrote: I am making an argument against the existence of an immaterial soul and/or spirit.
I understand that.
But if your argument has something to do with electricity, I think you'd have to show that electricity has something to do with souls.
Quote:If souls exist, how do such interact with matter?
I don't know. I don't know what a soul is, exactly. Other people are telling me that if a soul exists it has to be this way or that way, and I'm asking why.
I can tell you that Aristotle held souls to be the form of an object, in contrast to its matter -- hylomorphism. But a form is by definition not a material thing in itself. There is no way to detect a form apart from its matter.
Plato, I think, held souls to be forms or ideas. They express themselves through matter, but are not themselves material. There is no way an electric thingy could detect one, any more than we can detect the presence of the number 5, in the absence of 5 material objects.