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    It is not the case that The soul is immortal (exists eternally)

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    Reasons For

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    Reason for 1 of 2
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    • 1.The soul's self-motion, as Aristotle argued, presupposes a substrate; without a body, there is no substrate to sustain the motion.
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    • 2.What requires a substrate for its activity ceases when that substrate is destroyed.
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    • 3.Therefore, the soul's self-moving capacity terminates at bodily death, not persisting eternally.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Hume demonstrated that personal identity is a bundle of perceptions with no persistent self underlying them.
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    • 2.If the soul is merely a bundle of causally connected mental states, its continuity depends on that causal chain, which death severs.
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    • 3.What has no substantial unity beyond contingent causal relations has no basis for eternal persistence after those relations dissolve.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.What moves itself will not cease to do so
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    • 2.The soul moves itself
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    • 3.If the mover and the moved thing are identical, they cannot be disconnected
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