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Page 1741
... soul are merely matter in motion , and reason , since the initial impulse which sets the mechanism in motion comes ... Soul Sleepers or Mortalists be- cause they believed the soul to be material and that it sleeps with the body until ...
... soul are merely matter in motion , and reason , since the initial impulse which sets the mechanism in motion comes ... Soul Sleepers or Mortalists be- cause they believed the soul to be material and that it sleeps with the body until ...
Page 1745
... soul and the body , while at the same time acting as a medium for some of the lower faculties sensation , for instance which the Peripatetics ascribed to the immaterial soul itself , and , Descartes , to the body . They seek a bridge ...
... soul and the body , while at the same time acting as a medium for some of the lower faculties sensation , for instance which the Peripatetics ascribed to the immaterial soul itself , and , Descartes , to the body . They seek a bridge ...
Page 1746
... soul at once provides them with a conveniently invisible . mediator between the rational soul and the body , and , since it makes up the entire soul of beasts , explains how they can be active , not merely passive , yet have no trace of ...
... soul at once provides them with a conveniently invisible . mediator between the rational soul and the body , and , since it makes up the entire soul of beasts , explains how they can be active , not merely passive , yet have no trace of ...
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