Sentence examples for souls namely from inspiring English sources

Moreover, the dramatic differences in how good people are at leading lives, and relatedly the dramatic differences in how well they exercise their cognitive and intellectual functions, are due to differences in the conditions of their souls, namely the presence or absence of the virtues of justice, wisdom, courage and temperance.

For Numenius the human soul is of the kind of the divine soul, namely an immortal intellect (fr. 31.25 6), and in this sense human souls have divine origin (fr. 52.73 5).

Instead of giving the Platonic tripartition of soul into reason, spirit and appetite, the text glosses Plotinus' remark by listing Aristotle's three kinds of soul, namely reason, animal or sensitive, and vegetative or nutritive (Badawi 1947a, 20).

The soul of the Phaedo in fact seems to be precisely what in Republic 4 is identified as just one part of the soul, namely reason, whereas the functions of the lower parts, appetite and spirit, are assigned, in the psychological framework of the Phaedo, to the animate body.

Mendelssohn supports the notion that the soul is simple and thus indestructible by noting that certain features of the soul, namely, the unifying character of consciousness and the identity of self-consciousness, cannot be derived from anything composite, whether those composite parts be capable or not of thinking.

Porphyry reports that Numenius speaks of two souls, a rational and a non-rational one (Porphyry in Stobaeus I.350.25-351.1 Wachsmuth; fr. 44), while Philoponus (In de anima 9.35 38; fr. 47) suggests that Numenius may have distinguished also a third kind of soul, namely a vegetative one (phytikon).

In doing so, the theory comes very close to offering a comprehensive answer to a question that arises from the ordinary Greek notion of soul, namely how precisely it is that the soul, which is agreed to be in some way or other responsible for a variety of things living creatures (especially humans) do and experience, also is the distinguishing mark of the animate.

For Aquinas, the passions and affections were movements of two different parts of the soul, namely the sense appetite and the intellectual appetite respectively.

Accordingly, he asked Regius to correct the thesis that the human soul is three-fold, and to argue instead that "in human beings the soul is one, namely a rational soul" (AT III, 369 74: Bos 2002, 63 69).

The argument is this: (i) the soul is a form; (ii) the soul is something particular; therefore, (iii) there are particular forms, namely souls.

Living things are such thanks to the kind of forms they have, namely, soul, which is defined as the first actuality of a body having life potentially.