Immortality

The soul is immortal because it participates in the Form of Life and cannot admit its opposite.

The active intellect may be eternal, but the individual soul probably perishes with the body.

The soul is mortal atoms that scatter at death; the real terror is not dying but fearing an afterlife.

The soul descends from the One into body and ascends again; its kinship with the eternal guarantees its survival.

Each soul is created by God for one body and faces divine judgment after death, destined for the City of God or the city of the damned.

The soul, as subsistent form, survives death but remains incomplete without the body; resurrection fulfills a natural desire.

The soul is a thinking substance entirely distinct from the body; its simplicity means it cannot be destroyed by natural causes.

Personal identity depends on continuity of consciousness, not on the persistence of any substance; the real question is whether the same person survives, not the same soul.

Speculative reason cannot prove the soul's immortality, but practical reason must postulate it as a condition of moral perfection.

Supernatural sanctions are useful but not necessary; the service of humanity can ground morality without any promise of an afterlife.