Sentence examples for substantial soul from inspiring English sources

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Although Buddhism denies the existence of an unchanging, substantial soul or self as against the notion of the atman it teaches the concept of anatman (Pali: anatta; "non-self")—it holds to a belief in the transmigration of the karma that is accumulated by an individual in life.

Collins accepts Locke's revolutionary view that consciousness and not the substantial soul is the bearer of personal identity.

However Clarke does not accept this explanation because he holds that only a theory of the substantial soul can provide the underpinnings for an account of veridical memory.

Both the unique substance and the substantial soul are supposed to be indivisible, yet are really identical to the extension that is their mode, hence are divisible; both have contrary properties; etc.

"Bound 2" features substantial soul music samples, which critics noted as reminiscent of West's production style in his earlier work.

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"All this calls, at the least, for serious, honest, and substantial soul-searching".

Moreover, anything lacking a substantial form or soul is not a substance, that is, if a thing is not truly "animated", then it is only a true phenomenon.

Avicenna (Abû 'Alî al-Husayn b.'Abd Allah Ibn Sînâ, d. 1037), the multi-talented and prodigiously productive faylasûf whose work had the greatest impact among later Muslim thinkers, unequivocally posited an independent, self-conscious, substantial and immortal soul, and with it asserted its immortality.

Though we nod when Gordon-Reed observes that "despite some very real and substantial obstacles, James Hemings's soul had a much greater chance to flourish in Paris than in his native country," it is difficult to speak confidently about the state of someone's soul.

Again this resolves into the "nature" of the soul as substantial form.

The idea here again sounds Aristotelian: a substance has a certain essentially active component, the soul or substantial form or first entelechy, and a passive component, primary matter.

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