In so far as the soul is a force residing in the body; it has therefore been said … - Maimonides

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For indeed Christianity was complicit in the death of antiquity, and in the birth of modernity, not because it was an accomplice of the latter, but because it, alone in the history of the West, constituted a rejection of and alternative to nihilism's despair, violence, and idolatry of power; as such, Christianity shattered the imposing and enchanting facade behind which nihilism once hid, and thereby, inadvertently, called it forth into the open.

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In so far as the soul is a force residing in the body; it has therefore been said that the properties of the soul depend of the condition of the body.

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