====== Tratado 28 (IV, 4, 18-29) - O prazer e a dor, o desejo e a cólera em sua relação à união da alma e do corpo (Guthrie) ======




**FOURTH ENNEAD, BOOK FOUR.**
**Questions About the Soul. (Second Part.) (18-29)**

**THE BODY IS NOT US, BUT OURS.**

**THE SOUL AND BODY TOGETHER FORM A FUSION OF BOTH.**

**THE SOUL FEELS THE PASSIONS WITHOUT EXPERIENCING THEM.**

**UNLESS THE SOUL WERE IMPASSIBLE SHE COULD NOT LOCALIZE AND MANAGE PAIN.**

**THE APPETITES ARE LOCATED NEITHER IN BODY NOR SOUL, BUT IN THEIR COMBINATION.**

**TWO KINDS OF DESIRES: OF THE BODY; AND OF THE COMBINATION, OR NATURE.**

**DESIRES ARE PHYSICAL, BECAUSE CHANGEABLE IN HARMONY WITH THE BODY.**

**RELATION OF DESIRE-FUNCTION TO THE VEGETATIVE POWERS.**

**PLATO IS IN DOUBT ABOUT THE EARTH'S SOUL; WHETHER SHE IS LIKE THOSE OF STARS.**

**THE EARTH CAN FEEL AS WELL AS ANY OF THE STARS.**

**QUESTION: WHAT PASSIONS WOULD BE SUITABLE TO THE EARTH?**

**SENSATION WILL FIRST HAVE TO BE EXAMINED.**

**RESTATEMENT OF PROBLEMS INVOLVED.**

**CONCEPTIVE THOUGHT DEMANDS THE INTERMEDIARY PROCESS OF SENSATION.**

**THE PURE SOUL WOULD REMAIN ISOLATED.**

**SENSATION DEPENDS ON THE SENSE-SHAPE, WHICH, LIKE TOOLS, IS INTERMEDIATE.**

**EXCLUSION OF OTHER SIDE ISSUES.**

**ARE THE SENSES GIVEN US ONLY FOR THE SAKE OF UTILITY?**

**ARE SENSES GIVEN THE STARS FOR UTILITY?**

**IF SENSATION IS A SOUL-DISTRACTION, THE STARS WOULD NOT INDULGE THEREIN.**

**THE EARTH FEELS AND DIRECTS BY THE LAWS OF SYMPATHETIC HARMONY.**

**THE EARTH'S SENSES MAY BE DIFFERENT FROM OURS.**

**ANALYSIS OF THE EARTH'S PSYCHOLOGY.**

**DOES THE IRASCIBLE POWER ALSO ORIGINATE IN THE BODY?**

**THE LIVER IS THE SEAT OF THE SOUL'S FACULTY OF DESIRE.**

**THE HEART IS THE SEAT OF ANGER.**

**ANGER ORIGINATES IN THE VEGETATIVE AND GENERATIVE POWER, AS TRACE OF THE SOUL.**

**WHEN THE SOUL LEAVES THE BODY, SHE LEAVES A TRACE OF LIFE.**

**DOES THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THESE THINGS NECESSARILY IMPLY THEIR DESTRUCTION?**

**THREE POSSIBLE INTERRELATIONS OF THE SOUL'S SUPERIOR AND INFERIOR BODIES.**

**CAN THE PHYSICAL LIFE EXIST WITHOUT THE SOUL?**