1. Plato and the Existence of the Soul
... material, visible, and perishable; with the soul being immaterial and the body being material. He believed that the soul, once the body has died, will go to the world of forms. However if the soul had been unpurified by bodily influences then it would remain in the world of senses. The reason for this theory appearing to be the weakest of the three is that there is no evidence ... all intents and purposes, saying that "the soul is eternal, because the body is not eternal." Plato then says that the mind and the body have very different intents; the body is interested in sense pleasures, su...
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