... Adam needed the spirit breathed into him before becoming a living soul ibid). Dualism can majorly be traced to the postulations of Plato and Pythagoras. The earliest systematic conception of mind and body stems from the philosophies of these two Greek philosophers. Plato argued that the mind pre-existed and survived the body, going through a continual process of reincarnation or transmigration. Pythagoras on ... Descartes, and it is compatible with most theologies which claim that immortal souls occupy an independent "realm" of existence distinct from that of the physical world 6. Almost...

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