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    It is not the case that The soul is the most important thing a person possesses, because riches, honors, and health are worthless without a sound soul.

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    • 1.Aristotle's hylomorphism holds that soul and body form an inseparable composite, so bodily goods like health are constitutive of flourishing, not merely instrumental to it.
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    • 2.If health is partly constitutive of eudaimonia rather than dependent on soul-states, then ranking soul as lexically prior misrepresents the unity of the human good.
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    • 1.Hume argued there is no unified, enduring soul-substance — only a bundle of perceptions — which undermines the claim that a 'sound soul' is a stable possessable entity.
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    • 2.If 'soul' lacks the metaphysical unity required to serve as a ground for all other goods, the hierarchical structure of Cardano's claim collapses into a category error.
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    • 1.Riches, honors, and health are nothing without a sound soul.
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    • 2.Everything a person has refers back to the soul.
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