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Atheists/agnostics of Lemmy, do you believe in the existence of souls? (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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If you do, then what exactly defines a soul in your view?

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[โ€“] 9 points 3 years ago (7 children)

if someone can give me a good definition of what they think a soul is or does, maybe i'll have a response, but quite often, i find the concept less false, and more just ill-defined.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    A part of humans regarded as immaterial, immortal, separable from the body at death, capable of moral judgment, and susceptible to happiness or misery in a future state.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 3 years ago

    considering many non-humans seem perfectly capable of making moral judgements, and feeling happiness or misery (all actions which appear to be explicable by purely material means), a 'soul' seems unnecessary to explain such things in humans. and it seems the very height of anthropocentrism to say that humans are immortal (despite all evidence to the contrary) while everything else just dies. why would just humans have these souls instead of, say, dolphins, or wild boars, or rattlesnakes, or coastal redwoods?

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