Date: 2021-11-11 12:32 pm (UTC)
sdi: Oil painting of the Heliconian Muse whispering inspiration to Hesiod. (0)
From: [personal profile] sdi
Are you saying that any being that possesses a body must exist at a "higher" ontological level? (I guess that sorta makes sense: if there wasn't, who would do the "possessing?")

I guess another way to state this is, a body is lifeless on its own, and requires some power to animate it? This strikes me as a second "Common Conception"... In that case the logical argument is simple: if the gods had a body, then they would require an animating power to animate that body, but an animating power acting upon them violates the argument made in Chapter I (that gods can only act, and cannot be acted upon), and therefore gods can't have bodies.
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