"Bless you, my sweet little dove, Disraeli wrote to her, "soul of my existence", and he meant it.
Fight the bad guys, defend the weak, protect the innocent, do what is right... Well, when you realize that is not what occurred, those fundamental principles that define you are ripped away; the spine of your soul, of your existence, that which makes you, has been not just broken, but is gone.
It is because Socrates' soul's act of existence is Socrates' act of existence that the soul's intellectual operation is Socrates' intellectual operation.
Thus the soul receives its act of existence as the soul of a human being, and cannot pre-exist the human being whose soul it is.
Strictly speaking, since human souls are capable of existence in separation form the body, they are not forms after all, though they act as substantial forms as long as they are joined to the body.
His marriage to his soul-mate Gail will remain the heart and soul of his entire existence and the relationships he shared with his children and his grandchildren were unique and will forever serve as the standard by which inter-family relationships will be measured for generations to come that is Richard's true legacy.
That a professional athlete may use his excess time, Dr. Kalmin said, "to be introspective and worry about the state of his soul and the meaning of existence" can certainly be positive, as can religion's effects on clubhouse dynamics.
The soul is indeed capable of existence apart from the body at death.
Spiritualists, Spiritists, Rosicrucians and even Sufis to some extent believe in the continuous existence of the human soul across multiple planes of existence and certainly they have all written about near death experiences.
If so, Aristotle in fact seems to be committed to the view that, contrary to the Platonic position, even human souls are not capable of existence and (perhaps as importantly) activity apart from the body (cf. De Anima 1.1, 403a3-25, esp. 5-16).
