To get a better understanding of the concept of the soul, one should know its meaning from different religious perspective.In Judaism, the soul is the referred to as nephesh and ruah, which means breath and wind or spirit respectively. Two essential concept of the soul in this religion is that every living thing has a soul,which is referred to as the life-force and that emotions and the fundamental core of the human beings are stored in the soul.“All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils…” this sentence from the Book of Job, says that God breathed into the first man’s nose and gave him life. However there are no theological approach that explains how the individual soul enters a specific body and this is due
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Traducianism contrarily says that the soul is relayed along with the body by the parents at birth.This principle is mostly accepted by Lutherans. Reincarnationists,followers of christian platonism tradition, claim that the soul pre-existed before entering a body,that is, the soul is not attached to a specific body. The soul goes through epitomes in the process of spiritual growth and it is …show more content…
Therefore he defined the soul as being the “initial actuality of a natural body possessing organs and the “whatness" of the human being can only be discussed in terms of its soul. For instance the ears without its ability to hear would only be an ear by name.Furthermore E.B.Tylor believed that the belief in the soul was in the pursuit of understanding phenomenon such as dreams. Descartes claims that the soul is connected to the physical body but more specifically to the brain and heart.The brain controls the organs of senses and the heart is where a human feel emotion and passion. 7 Plato actually divided soul into three parts : the rational part, appetitive part and the spirited part. The rational part deals with truth, the spirited part is concerned with anger and appetitive part is related to hunger,thirst and
Traducianism contrarily says that the soul is relayed along with the body by the parents at birth.This principle is mostly accepted by Lutherans. Reincarnationists,followers of christian platonism tradition, claim that the soul pre-existed before entering a body,that is, the soul is not attached to a specific body. The soul goes through epitomes in the process of spiritual growth and it is …show more content…
Therefore he defined the soul as being the “initial actuality of a natural body possessing organs and the “whatness" of the human being can only be discussed in terms of its soul. For instance the ears without its ability to hear would only be an ear by name.Furthermore E.B.Tylor believed that the belief in the soul was in the pursuit of understanding phenomenon such as dreams. Descartes claims that the soul is connected to the physical body but more specifically to the brain and heart.The brain controls the organs of senses and the heart is where a human feel emotion and passion. 7 Plato actually divided soul into three parts : the rational part, appetitive part and the spirited part. The rational part deals with truth, the spirited part is concerned with anger and appetitive part is related to hunger,thirst and