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#29 Richard Swinburne - Souls, Free Will and the Problem of Evil

Within Reason

CHAPTER

The Meaning of Person

You like to think of persons as more than merely material. I mean persons include humans but it's a much wider term and I would define it as a pure mental substance. And that is compatible with them either having a body or not having a body. So a person, at least an embodied person who's alive right now like you and me, we in your view consist of two parts. That would be broadly described as a mind or a soul connected to a physical body.

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