A Body-Bound Soul

I found it interesting that Arendt finds the soul to be "body-bound" (Arendt 32), as most people before her time found the soul to a be a separate entity from the body. She interprets the soul as emotions with somatic experiences such as when your heart aches when you grieve or how love and joy can simply overwhelm a person. The language of the soul expresses itself through thought and is not simply an untouchable, imaginable idea as it had been thought of previously. The soul is understood as something that is bottomless and unlimited, and is expressed through the body as a pair that cannot function one without the other. Overall, her interpreation of the body and soul is very profound.