last two arguments are raised to prove thoroughly that the soul exists after death, and that if it exists after death that it is truly immortal. The first of these proposes is that the soul has an attunement, like that of a musical instrument. The instrument being the representation of the physical body and the invisible tuning being that of the soul. The flaw with this argument is that it supposes the soul, like a tuning coming from the strings of an instrument, is dependent upon the physical components of the body. If the soul exists before the body then it can not be dependent upon it’s physical components to exist. An attunement of the soul also leads to the assumption that this attunement can vary, being more or less in tune. Giving rise to the theory that the body can effect the tuning of the soul, allowing the soul to be more or less in tune. Seeing that the soul can never be more or less of a soul it can not have tuning. “Does that which is neither more or less in tune contain a greater or smaller proportion of attunement, or an equal one?” (11) “Then since no soul is any more or less than just a soul, it is neither more or less in tune.” (12) The second argument is that the soul may survive many lifetimes but eventually it will wear out, for there are an inexhaustible amount of new bodies and lives, and only one particular soul. For this argument to be answered the very essence of what the soul is must be examined. Whenever the soul is present if brings life, and when the is absent so is life. For if a thing is beautiful it said to take part in beauty itself. Or if a man is tall he partakes in tallness. Further more if something is beautiful, and thus partaking in beauty itself, it can not partake in ugliness. For beauty and ugliness are opposites and one can not exist in the presence of the other in the same object. Though the same object that was considered beautiful when compared to something el...
