rational soul

collocation in English

meaningsofrationalandsoul

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rational
adjective
uk
/ˈræʃ.ən.əl/us
/ˈræʃ.ən.əl/
based on clear thought ...
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soul
noun
uk
/səʊl/us
/soʊl/
the spiritual part of a person that some people believe continues to exist in some form after their body has died, or the part of a person that is not physical and experiences deep feelings ...
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(Definition ofrationalandsoulfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It thus becomes an individualrationalsouldi#erent from each and every other similarly created individual humanrationalsoul.
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Therationalsoulis the highest level of the ordinary human psyche.
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Although therationalsoulsurvives the death of the composite human being, then, it's not available to nature qua form.
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Therationalsoulthus sanctioned the ontological difference between the two realms while also establishing a constant relationship between them.
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This connection individualizes therationalsoulbecause of the particular spatial and temporal location of that matter.
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What is really ambiguous is the role of the celestial soul / souls play in the temporal creation of the humanrationalsoul.
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Because the intellect is incorporeal, therationalsoul, of which the intellect is a power, is also said to be immaterial.
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There is also an ambiguity in his statements about the role the celestial soul plays in the emanation of the humanrationalsoul.
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That's just what it means for a human being to be dead - therationalsoulseparates from matter and persists in a disembodied state until the bodily resurrection.
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What continues through the intermediate state is therationalsoulthat subsists (disembodied) until reunited with the body, at which time the human being is recovered.
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The "pneuma psychikon" corresponded to therationalsoul.
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In scholastic theology, it was the point at which the embryo was informed by arationalsoul.
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It has little to do with the subsequent development of individuating dispositions such as ' 'self-awareness,' ' where therationalsoulhas direct awareness of itself, entirely independent of any bodily faculty.
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He also listed imagination, memory, recollection, knowledge, thought, consideration, voluntary motion and sensation as being found within therationalsoul.
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Everyrationalsoulhas naturally a good free-will, formed for the choice of what is good.
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They cleanse therationalsoulof the impurities of nature and bodily form, until it becomes pure substance.
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Thisrationalsoulis able to communicate directly with angels without going through the physical articulation of the sign.
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This hylic intellect, which forms therationalsoul, is a spiritual substance and not an accident, and is therefore imperishable.
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She believed human nature to be a single concept, where therationalsouland spiritual soul must co-occur for a human being to exist.
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Therationalsoulwas in the brain, the spiritual soul was in the heart, and the appetitive soul was in the liver.
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There was somewhat in it divine in the symmetry of proportions of length, height and breadth which was harmonious to therationalsoul.
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Man with hisrationalsoulhas the capacity to think and talk and the choice to ascend to the highest or lowest stations in life.
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The body is matter that is spatially extended, whereas the mind is the substance that thinks and contains therationalsoul.
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