“Every human desire, in itself, reaches toward infinity.”

Mendelssohn's Phaedon, Dialogue 3

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What does it mean to say that the soul is immortal? Is it a substance that floats free from the body at death, or is it something more elusive—something tied to the very structure of meaning itself?

Perhaps the soul is nothing more than what we care about. If a parent dies so that a child might live, we say the parent lives on in the child.…