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The Unity or Plurality of the Body and Soul with an Emphasis on the Religious Documents
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Ali Karimian Seyqalani   |
| Associate professor, University of Guilan, a.karimiyan110@yahoo.com |
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Abstract: (716 Views) |
The problem of the unity of the body or its plurality for every human being, like the problem of the unity or plurality of the soul, is one of the controversial issues in classical philosophy. In the religious documents, though in the initial view, there seems to be an apparent conflict, but in general, a favorable conclusion can be reached. This article has investigated the documents in this regard with the descriptive method and content analysis. Research findings show that according to religious documents, every human has two "material" and "imaginary" bodies. But regarding the number of souls, there is a difference of narrations, some narrations consider man as having two spirits "Al-Hayavan" and "Al-Aql" and some narrations consider man as having five spirits "Al-Quwwa, Al-Shahwa, Al-Madraj, Al-Iman and Al-Quds". Also, it seems that the second category of narrations can be combined with the first category, and the narrations about the five spirits refer to the powers of the animal soul and the soul of the mind.
Keywords: Unity and plurality, narrations, mysticism, ideal body, soul of life, soul of reason
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Received: 2023/06/15 | Accepted: 2023/09/2 | Published: 2024/06/1 | ePublished: 2024/06/1
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