immortality of the soul
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immortality · the soul is immortal · eternity of souls · immortal · the soul's immortality
in the texts
Republic
The doctrine, argued for in this passage, that the soul cannot be destroyed by any evil, including its own vice (injustice), and is therefore immortal.
Have you never perceived, said I, that our soul is immortal and never perishes?
And reflect, lest we be misled by supposing that when an unjust and foolish man is taken in his injustice he is then destroyed by the injustice, which is the vice of soul.
But if anyone, said I, dares to come to grips with the argument and say, in order to avoid being forced to admit the soul’s immortality, that a dying man does become more wicked and unjust, we will postulate that, if what he says is true, injustice must be fatal to its possessor as if it were a disease, and that those who catch it die because it kills them by its own inherent nature, those who hav …
De Anima
The doctrine that the soul persists after bodily death.
Some deny the soul to be immortal;
Plato is unwilling, as if the immortality of the soul were thereby endangered.
’ It is no wonder, then, if even in prison, eager to break the snared hands of Anytus and Meletus, he asserts the immortality of the soul in the very face of death by a presumption made necessary to frustrate the wrong done to him.
Tusculan Disputations
The doctrine that the soul survives bodily death, argued through consensus, tradition, and reason.
Do not poets too wish to be ennobled after death?
— Set forth, then, if it is no trouble, first, if you can, that souls remain after death;
No one ever, without a great hope of immortality, would offer himself to death for his country.
Stromata
The doctrine that the human soul survives death and is subject to chastisement or reward.
And it follows upon these that the soul is immortal.
"It is a tree of immortality to those who lay hold of it.
De Carnis Resurrectione
The belief that the soul survives death, held by philosophers and heretics alike, contrasted with denial of the flesh's survival.
I will therefore use even the verdict of some Plato pronouncing, "Every soul is immortal";
Yet it is enough that the philosophy of Pythagoras and Empedocles and the Platonists, no smaller, cries out to the contrary that the soul is immortal — indeed they go further and most nearly affirm that it may return into bodies, though not into the same ones, though not into human bodies only, so that Euphorbus is reckoned to pass into Pythagoras, and Homer into a peacock.