PHIL 2 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Embalming, Mycenaean Greece, Nonperson
9 Aug 2019
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For the ancient greeks a dead man is a puzzle. The living person ceases to exist and does not resemble anything. It is in death when man ceases to function, to have vitality, to feel But his identity persists because, although he has died, two new things are born: on the one hand, the s ma or corpse. Unable to preserve himself, his appearance begins to change. We have talked about psyche in previous articles, as well as the different souls that man has before and after death. The main idea is that psyche is immaterial, it cannot be touched, it is rather an eidolon, an image. You can only speak in dreams or if it provides you with warm blood. We can assimilate the eidolon to a negative of a photographic image. Only the head and face are the recognizable parts of the person.
