PHIL 2010H Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Microsoft Powerpoint
3 May 2017
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The soul is not a harmony of the parts of the body. A harmony depends on, and is directed by, the parts of the thing of which it is a harmony. The soul, on the contrary, directs the body. Socrates has not proved that the soul is immortal--- only that it is longer lasting than the average body. It might wear out many bodies, just as a weaver might wear out many cloaks. But it might eventually be destroyed itself, just as the weaver eventually dies, leaving her last cloak behind. Forms can share in each other (the form of two and the form of evenness) If you have the form of two represented with 2 chairs, and then the form of oddness comes in, the form of two would have to disappear and a chair would be added or subtracted. The soul is immortal: argument from the impossibility in sharing in the form of death- part i.
