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previously corporeal, because assumption that there is
it is essentially immaterial. ascending substantial motion,
Mulla Sadra might have that is, change within the
responded that the continuity substance of the individual
between the organic substance human being that involves its
and the immaterial one is becoming more perfect or
sufficient to justify the claim acquiring powers, from its
that it is the same individual, beginning. It is not clear what
the soul, that was corporeal the beginning is. Conception?
and became immaterial Allamah Misbah says that
through substantial motion, the ascending motion might
through the exchange of a have a long history with no
merely corporeal substance clear beginning at all. This
for an immaterial one. seems to indicate that he is
The soul retains its not speaking of an individual
individual identity despite the but of the stuff that will later
change in substance. This find its way to become
continuity on which individual organized as a human body.
diachronic identity is based One might also raise the
will be present even if, in question of the beginning of
accordance with the first horn the soul phylogenetically:
of the dilemma, the Was there not evolutionary
substantial change occurs at development in successive
some particular instant. species until the human soul
appeared, that is, living
The Second Horn: creatures with rational powers?
Beginningless Emergence Even if Ernst Haeckel’s
The second horn of the slogan, ontogeny recapitulates
dilemma begins with the
