Guthrie: Tratado 53 (I,1) — The Organism and the Self.

FIRST ENNEAD, BOOK ONE.

The Organism and the Self.¹

TOPICS

• Psychologic distinctions in soul.
• The soul as a composite aggregate.
• The soul is not essence.
• The soul uses the body as tool.
• Separation of soul from body.
• Primitive relation between soul and body.
• Consequences of mixture of soul and body.
• Mixture of soul and body.
• Aristotelian hypothesis considered.
• The living organism.
• Refutation of the (james-lange) theory of emotions.
• Not all affections common to soul and body.
• Desire, not simultaneous with appetite.
• Soul and body, by uniting. Form an individual aggregate.
• Sensation implies feeling soul.
• Soul-light forms animal nature.
• Relation of animal to human nature.
• External and internal sensation.
• Distinction in the whole organism.
• Individual relation with cosmic intellect.
• Individual relation with god and cosmic soul.
• Soul gives life to psychologic elements.
• Origin of evils, sins, and errors.
• Intellect did not grasp the object itself.
• True conception act of intuition.
• Modifications derive from foreign sources.
• Distinctions in “we” and the “real man.”
• Real man differs from body.
• Function of the common part.
• The superior principle not always utilized.
• The animating principle of animals.
• The soul both impassible and punishable.
• Philosophic separation refers not only to body, but to passible accretions.
• How the animal nature is generated.
• The double hercules symbolizes the soul.
• Relation of the “we” and the “soul.”
• Intelligence not ours. But we.

1. The subject announced in the preceding book, II. 3.16; another proof of the chronological order. This is a very obscure book, depending on IV. 3 and 4: and VI. 7; on the theory of the three divine hypostases, on his psychology, the soul’s relation to, and separation from the body, and metempsychosis. His doctrines of “self” and of the emotions are strikingly modern. ↩