Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Individuals
- Logic and ontology
- Ethics
- Physics
- Chapter 19 The nature of time and place
- Chapter 20 The eternity of the world
- Chapter 21 The heavens
- Chapter 22 God and providence
- Chapter 23 Fate, choice and what depends on us
- Chapter 24 Soul
- Chapter 25 Generation
- Chapter 26 Sensation
- Chapter 27 Intellect
- Bibliography
- Index of sources
- Index of passages cited
- Index of personal names (ancient)
- General index
Chapter 24 - Soul
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Individuals
- Logic and ontology
- Ethics
- Physics
- Chapter 19 The nature of time and place
- Chapter 20 The eternity of the world
- Chapter 21 The heavens
- Chapter 22 God and providence
- Chapter 23 Fate, choice and what depends on us
- Chapter 24 Soul
- Chapter 25 Generation
- Chapter 26 Sensation
- Chapter 27 Intellect
- Bibliography
- Index of sources
- Index of passages cited
- Index of personal names (ancient)
- General index
Summary
Macrobius, On the Dream of Scipio 1.14.20 (Critolaus, fr. 18 Wehrli 1969b)
Critolaus the Peripatetic [teaches] that [the soul] is constituted of the fifth substance.
Tertullian, On the Soul 5.2 (Critolaus, fr. 17 Wehrli 1969b)
Nor do I speak only of those who fashion [the soul] from things that are clearly corporeal, as Hipparchus and Heraclitus do from fire, Hippo and Thales from water, Empedocles and Critias from blood, Epicurus from atoms (if atoms too produce corporeities from their coming-together), as Critolaus and his Peripatetics do from some fifth substance (if it too is a body, since it includes bodies), but I adduce also the Stoics, who call the soul spirit, virtually [agreeing] with us, in that breath and spirit are very close to each other, but nevertheless will easily persuade [us] that the soul is body.
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- Peripatetic Philosophy, 200 BC to AD 200An Introduction and Collection of Sources in Translation, pp. 235 - 251Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010