====== 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.