Ciara Sherry
New member
I need to know what this passage means:
“I admit it would be easier for me to concede matter and extension to the soul, than the capacity of moving a body and of being moved, to an immaterial being. … [For it is] very difficult to comprehend that a soul, as you have described it, after having had the faculty and habit of reasoning well, can lose all of it on account of some vapors [presumably vapors that render you unconscious], and that, although it can subsist without the body and has nothing in common with it, is yet so ruled by it.”
“I admit it would be easier for me to concede matter and extension to the soul, than the capacity of moving a body and of being moved, to an immaterial being. … [For it is] very difficult to comprehend that a soul, as you have described it, after having had the faculty and habit of reasoning well, can lose all of it on account of some vapors [presumably vapors that render you unconscious], and that, although it can subsist without the body and has nothing in common with it, is yet so ruled by it.”