WORLD RELIGIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -Animism entails the belief that “all living things have a soul", and thus, a central concern of animist thought surrounds how animals can be eaten, or otherwise used for humans’ subsistence needs.

Detailed explanation-2: -The soul is the “driver” in the body. It is the roohu or spirit or atma, the presence of which makes the physical body alive. Many religious and philosophical traditions support the view that the soul is the ethereal substance – a spirit; a non-material spark – particular to a unique living being.

Detailed explanation-3: -Pythagoras held that the soul was of divine origin and existed before and after death. Plato and Socrates also accepted the immortality of the soul, while Aristotle considered only part of the soul, the noûs, or intellect, to have that quality. Epicurus believed that both body and soul ended at death.

Detailed explanation-4: -A soul, Aristotle says, is “the actuality of a body that has life, ‘’ where life means the capacity for self-sustenance, growth, and reproduction. If one regards a living substance as a composite of matter and form, then the soul is the form of a natural-or, as Aristotle sometimes says, organic-body.