The History of the Concept of the Soul - The Mr. T Experience

Homer didn’t have a comprehensive word for mind

The psyche and the conscious self had not yet been combined

He understood events as repetition of the past

And individual consciousness was not a part of that

But early Greek thought played a role in the complicate history

Of the concept of the soul

By the time of Plato these ideas had taken shape

The Phaedo and Timaeus are works which demonstrate

The consious separation of the knower from the known

And the dual nature of the body and the soul

Modern thought was possible:

The complicated history of the concept of the soul

Whoa!

Pythagoras and Orphic doctrines all came into play

Because Plato was a mystic in his own Platonic way

The pre-Socratic Naturalists saw things in terms of «stuff»

But Plato’s metaphysics showed that this was not enough

This is the incredible complicated history of the concept of the soul

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