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The immorality of the soulIs the human soul mortal or immortal? With death do we fall into nothingness or do we survive death, passing into another way of existing? This is a question that has troubled thoughts for centuries. There is something inside all human beings that lives forever. Even when death is near, the soul of a human being never dies. Thus we arrive at the statement that the human soul is immortal. The purpose of this article is to explain how the human soul is immortal through the analysis of various philosophies. The soul is defined as the "vital principle" or principle of life. It is the first source of life in a living being. It is the thing that makes a living being live. It is what separates living things from non-living things. (1) It is the primary source of life in a living being. It is the thing that makes a living being live. With this in mind, it is evident that all living things have a soul; this includes animals and even plants. However, just as there are different degrees of life, there are different degrees of soul. Unlike animals and plants, humans have a rational life; therefore they have a rational soul. Immortality is a complex idea in society, even today. Immortality is the indefinite continuation of a person's existence, even after death. (2) Immortality implies endless existence, whether the body dies or not. To understand the immortality of the human soul it is important to understand the difference between the body and the soul of an individual. The body is the physical object of an individual, which lives until death, and then decomposes. On the other hand, people connect the soul to the personality of an individual. The soul can also be associated with the mind. The... center of the paper... learning important things is remembered. This means that the knowledge acquired before birth was lost by us at birth, and later with the use of the senses we recovered what we knew previously. For example, we are able to perceive that two sticks are equal in length but unequal in width only because we have an innate understanding of the form of equality.(4) That is, we have an innate understanding of what it means for something to be equal even if not There are two things we encounter in experience that are in themselves perfectly the same. Since we can grasp this Form of Equality even if we never encounter it in experience, our understanding of it must be a reminder of the immortal knowledge we had and forgot before birth. This argument implies that the soul must have existed before birth, which in turn implies that the life of the soul extends beyond that of the body..