The Dante passage answers that human life is breathed forth immediately by the chief good, unlike the souls of animals and plants that are drawn forth from matter by the motions of the heavens.
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Human life
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"The rays and motion of the holy lights draw forth the soul of every animal and plant from matter able to take form. But..."
"...army. I mean, if this shows no lack of respect for human life, I don't know what does. And so, I think that, again,..."
"...too expensive to maintain an air war. But the cost on human life from a ground invasion could be catastrophic, not just for the..."
"...So this shows that the Americans actually don't really care about human life. But by doing this, if the Americans actually do destroy power..."
"...is that this is to show you how Americans really value human life. And it's something that Americans are very proud of. But another..."
"I don't think that they view it as human life at all. If you look at the drone footage that they're posting, it's as..."
"...-being. It's not about spirituality. It's about GDP, okay? It's about human life, okay? So, human life is an economic commodity. So, it's not..."
"...to achieve a higher end because the ultimate end is the human life okay so that's the idea of the category imperative the ethical..."
"...right for Oswald Spengler a civilization is no different from a human life it's meant to be born it's meant to rise and it's..."
"...wrong because humans are the end unto themselves. Every life, every human life is as valuable as all human life together. Okay? You cannot..."
"...but that comes later later and the idea of materialism in human life and if you think about it this is now becomes the..."
"...again, okay? So, the world, history, moves in a cycle. Well, human life also moves in a cycle. You're born, you die, then you're..."
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