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.