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concept-266	none	Struggling with Flesh: Soul/Body Dualism in Porphyry and Augustine*	2005	38	.pdf	application/pdf	15725	657	60	As John O’Meara explains in Porphyry’s Philosophy from Oracles in Augustine, Porphyry disagreed with both Plato and Plotinus that souls that had been joined to human bodies should return subsequently to join a bestial body, and he furthermore contended that perfectly purified souls never returned to body, human or Dera Sipe 8 bestial, at all. “But the other nature, which has being of itself, is all that really exists, which does not come into being or perish: or everything else will pass away, and could not come into being afterwards if this real existence had perished which preserves all other things and especially this All, which is preserved and given its universal order and beauty by soul” (Plotinus IV.7.9.1-5). 17 For Plotinus, “Soul, as the source of life in bodies, is not a body and does not depend on body for its existence.	cache/concept-266.pdf	txt/concept-266.txt