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The Soul (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not a ready-made agent which shows what it is through acts and utterances. Rather, it is the act and utterance of what the soul is that invests it with that character in our conception and makes it reach a higher stage of being than it explicitly had before.

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Soul (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠no separate immaterial entity: wherever there is nature, the soul is its universal immaterialism, its simple ideal life.

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Soul (n.) conceived ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠abstractly is only the sleep of mind.

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Soul (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠one simple, omnipresent unity in the body: for the feeling soul the body's parts-outside-parts are no barrier and no truth.

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Soul (n.) implicitly ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠shows the untruth of matter, cutting itself off from its body and making it a material that cannot resist its moulding.

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Soul (n.) for ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠modern metaphysics became a thing with many powers, fixed as a spectre or an angel and even given a colour — Kant's merit was to put the self in its place.