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If the intellect is the operation of the soul, can you say that human nature is more of a mind than a body?

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Darik Majoren Profile
Darik Majoren answered

Intellect is the operation of the Soul? . . . So where does that leave the buffoon . . . How about the mentally challenged? Souless, or simply just a nonoperation Soul at best . . . ?

I'd say the intellect is the operation of learned and experienced knowledge and the "positive" practice thereof.

No Soul needed for anything.

Tom  Jackson Profile
Tom Jackson answered

Aristotle talks of two "principles of being"---a limiting principle and a perfecting principle.

"The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak"---a similar observation. 

Can you say "that human nature is more of a mind than a body?"

I suppose you can in the same way that you can call the tail of a dog a leg.

But the dog still only has four he was born with---and the tail still exists no matter what you choose to call it.

So to call human nature more mind than body serves no purpose that I can see---and is, I think, misleading.

Michael Poland Profile
Michael Poland answered

It is light that lives forever.

Oru photography will let you see yourself.

mary adam Profile
mary adam answered

My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists.

- Nikola Tesla

Educating the mind without educating the heart, is no education at alI - Aristotle

Just Ice Profile
Just Ice answered

If the intellect is the operation of the soul, can you say that human nature is more of a mind than a body?============================================================

Not so sure about "the intellect is the operation of the soul"

but I suppose one can say that "human nature is more of a mind than a body" in as much as human personality is more of a mind than a body.

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