wat is a soul for??

Question

wat is a soul for? if i didnt have a soul, then would i still have emotions?

Answer 1

Soul is just a name for an individuated aspect of God.

Love and blessings Don

Answer 2

You don't have a soul. Your culture wants you to believe you do and then look for something outside of your 'soul' to fix what's wrong with it. Dump all of it and living is all you do. Emotions are only thoughts that we give romantic names to. All thought is culturally driven and the idea of emotions is given value by that culture. Your living body has no concept of soul or culture. It is your thinking that is making that important.

Answer 3

There is no such thing as a soul, so it's only purpose is to make nice stories.

There is a documentary of Bonobo chimps. One of the young (but very mobile, maybe like a 9 yr old human) male chimps loses his mother. He literally starved to death staying by her body. Does he have a soul? No.

Answer 4

"wat is a soul for?"

--- Hmmm.... Now, let's see here...

You 'are' Soul, or 'a' Soul. As such you are Soul 'having,' of which one quality is emotion, among countless other things you 'have.' You are not possessed by something outside you but in fact you are the selfsame one doing the possessing.

Answer 5

What is a "soul"? I don't think there is any actual evidence such a thing exists..."Emotions" are simply feelings, and snails have feelings...does that mean snails have "souls"?

Answer 6

I don't know; I would say none by positive definition.


As it is with all words, it has more than one description to come with it.

§ 47n

Paralogisms are a species of unsound syllogism, the especial vice of which consists in employing one and the same word in the two premises with a different meaning. According to Kant the method adopted by the rational psychology of the old metaphysicians, when they assumed that the qualities of the phenomenal soul, as given in experience, formed part of its own real essence, was based upon such a Paralogism. Nor can it be denied that predicates like simplicity, permanence, etc., are inapplicable to the soul. But their unfitness is not due to the ground assigned by Kant, that Reason, by applying them, would exceed its appointed bounds. The true ground is that this style of abstract terms is not good enough for the soul, which is very much more than a mere simple or unchangeable sort of thing. And thus, for example, while the soul may be admitted to be simple selfsameness, it is at the same time active and institutes distinctions in its own nature. But whatever is merely or abstractly simple is as such also a mere dead thing. By his polemic against the metaphysic of the past Kant discarded those predicates from the soul or mind. He did well; but when he came to state his reasons, his failure is apparent.

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/sl/sl_iv.htm#SL47

SECTION ONE: SUBJECTIVE SPIRIT
§ 307

Spirit can be called subjective insofar as it is in its concept. Since, however, the concept is the reflection of its generality originating from its differentiation in itself the subjective spirit is (a) immediate, the spirit of nature— the object usually treated by "anthropology" as "the soul"; (b) spirit as the identical reflection into itself and into others, relationship or differentiation— consciousness, the object of the Phenomenology of the Spirit, (c) spirit existing for itself or as subject— the object of "psychology." Consciousness awakes in the soul; consciousness posits itself as reason; and subjective reason frees itself for objectivity through its activity.

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/sp/ssintrod.htm#SS307

§ 308.

Spirit came into being as the truth of nature which has translated and suspended itself But spirit is, then, not merely true and primordial: its transition into the realm of the concept is not only reflection into others and reflection into itself but it is also free judgment. The becoming of spirit in this way indicates that nature suspends itself in itself as untruth, and that spirit no longer presupposes itself as immediacy self-externalised in physical individuality, but as general and as that immediacy, simple in its concreteness, in which it is soul.

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/sp/sssoul.htm

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/li_terms.htm

Answer 7

if you didn't have a soul you would have NO emotions, and no conscience either. Our soul is what makes us alive in every sense of the word. without it we would be just surviving like animals do

Answer 8

It is a container. How else could you hold on to your beliefs?