Platão e platonismo

Tratado 27 (IV, 3, 20-23) – Relations between soul and body (Guthrie)

E. RELATIONS BETWEEN SOUL AND BODY.

  • if functions are not localized the soul will not seem entirely within us.
  • space is corporeal; the body is within the soul.
  • nor is the body a vase, for proximate transmission of the soul.
  • many metaphysical objections to the conception of soul as localized.
  • nor is the soul in the body as a quality in a substrate.
  • nor is the soul in the body as a part in the whole.
  • nor is the soul in the body as a whole in a part.
  • nor will the soul be in the body as form in matter.
  • the soul is said to be in the body because the body alone is visible.
  • this leaves the question of the manner of the soul’s presence.
  • the soul in a body as a pilot in a ship.
  • the soul present in the body as light in air.
  • while the soul-power is everywhere, the principle of action is localized in the special organ.
  • reason is in the head, but not in the brain, which is the seat of the intermediary, the power of sensation.
  • growth is localized in the liver, anger in the heart.
GUTHRIE, K. S. Plotinus: Complete Works: In Chronological Order, Grouped in Four Periods. [single Volume, Unabridged]. [s.l.] CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017.