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    The idea of immortality comes from Plato — Carmelics
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    The idea of immortality comes from Plato

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    • 1.Plato's Theory of Forms posits eternal, unchanging ideas; the soul as immaterial aligns naturally with this metaphysics.
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    • 2.Plato's Phaedo provides the most systematic philosophical defense of soul immortality in Western antiquity.
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    • 3.Subsequent Western philosophy drew heavily on Platonic arguments for immortality, making him foundational to the concept.
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