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| Part One - Essence of the Human Soul | |
Book 5 - Immortality of the human soul and death of the human being |
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| Contents |
| The concept of death, and the concept of annihilation |
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| Can sensitive souls cease to exist? |
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Sensitive souls cannot cease to exist through any action on the part of natural forces |
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Sensitive souls are not destroyed by the Creator |
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Confirmation of the existence of elementary life |
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| Origin and confutation of metempsychosis |
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| The concept of human death |
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Death in human beings consists in the cessation of the primal perception of the fundamental feeling |
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The conditions giving rise to the primal perception and consequently to human life |
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| How human nature is constituted |
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| The intellective soul never loses its individuality; it is immortal |
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| The first thing that human beings understand |
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| Why the human soul no longer perceives the body when the organisation is dissolved |
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| Why the human soul is joined to only one body, and to this body rather than that |
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| Can the intellective principle abandon the body spontaneously in the absence of disorganisation? |
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| Why human beings find death repugnant |
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| Does the separated soul retain any inclination to unite itself with the body? |
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| The preceding teaching about the union of soul and body avoids the opposite errors |
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| Further proofs of the immortality of the human soul |
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| Conclusion |
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