Motif
indestructible immortal soul
indestructible_immortal_soul
A motif of the Sacred Knowledge and Wisdom family, within the sub-family Cosmos and Cosmology. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
greek
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The Republic BOOK VII. / BOOK VIII. / BOOK IX. / BOOK X.; lines 24067-24188 confidence: high
The speaker says fever, disease, a knife at the throat, or cutting up the body cannot be said to destroy the soul unless the soul is shown to become more unholy or unrighteous through what happens to the body.
The passage argues that the soul cannot be destroyed by bodily or external evils and concludes that it must exist forever and be immortal.
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