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As such, being incorporeal, though "infused" in an unknown manner to the body, and being the "form" of the body in a platonic sense, the soul has no location, and therefore cannot be "located in" the body as one locates an organ. This is the typical understanding of the soul found in the Catholic Church today.
Although he regarded the ground of the soul as the place where God "works" in the soul or, as he put it, where the soul "has" God, he did not identify the ground with the Godhead. Rather, he taught that when the uncreated divine abyss meets the created human abyss, one abyss flows into the other; then "the created nothingness sinks into the ...
Jīva (Sanskrit: जीव) or Ātman (/ ˈ ɑː t m ən /; Sanskrit: आत्मन्) is a philosophical term used within Jainism to identify the soul. [1] As per Jain cosmology, jīva or soul is the principle of sentience and is one of the tattvas or one of the fundamental substances forming part of the universe.
It is the soul alone who makes the necessary efforts to achieve liberation without any divine grace. [13] [14] Jains frequently assert that “we are alone” in this world. Amongst the Twelve Contemplations of Jains, one is the loneliness of one's soul and nature of the universe and transmigration. Hence only by cleansing our soul by our own ...
[11] [12] This conception inferred as in the biblical parable Lazarus and Dives that there is considered a greater distance between good and bad spirits than between the dead and the living. [13] Also, the spirit world is "The Home of the Soul" as described by C. W. Leadbeater ( Theosophist ), suggesting that for a living human to experience ...
The Platonic soul consists of three parts, which are located in different regions of the body: [8] [9] The logos (λογιστικόν), or logistikon, located in the head, is related to reason and regulates the other parts. The thymos (θυμοειδές), or thumoeides, located near the chest region, is related to spirit.
Plato described the universe as a living being in his dialogue Timaeus (30b–d): . Thus, then, in accordance with the likely account, we must declare that this Cosmos has verily come into existence as a Living Creature endowed with soul and reason [...] a Living Creature, one and visible, containing within itself all the living creatures which are by nature akin to itself.
Jiva means "soul" in Jainism, and is also called jivatman. [12] It is a core concept and the fundamental focus of the Jain theology. [5] [13] The soul is believed to be eternal, and a substance that undergoes constant modifications, in every life, after every rebirth of a living being.