Plut. Mor., Sentiments Concerning Nature 4.4 — Of Those Sentiments Concerning Nature With Which Philosophers Were Delighted

Plut. Mor., Sentiments Concerning Nature 4.4 — Of Those Sentiments Concerning Nature With Which Philosophers Were Delighted, Plutarch; served verbatim

OF THE PARTS OF THE SOUL. Plato *and Pythagoras, according to their former account distribute the soul into two parts, the rational and irrational. Bya more accurate and strict account the soul is branched into three parts ; they divide the unreasonable part into the concupiscible and the irascible. The Stoics say the soul is constituted of eight parts ; five of which are the senses, hearing, seeing, tasting, touching, smelling, the sixth is the faculty of speaking, the seventh of generating, the eighth of commanding ; this is the principal of all, by which all the other are guided and ordered in their proper organs, as we see the arms of a polypus aptly disposed. Democritus and Epicurus divide the soul into two parts, the rational, which hath its residence in the breast, and the irrational, which is diffused through the whole structure of the body. Democritus, that the quality of the soul is communicated to every thing, yea, to the dead corpses ; for they are partakers of heat and some sense, when the most of both is expired out of them.

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Of Those Sentiments Concerning Nature With Which Philosophers Were Delighted, Plutarch — translated by John Dowel (rev. W. W. Goodwin), 1874
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