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

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.