Sleep
event · 2 works · 2 mentions · 4 anchored passages
also in the atlas: Sleep the deity · Sleep the idea
sleep · dreams · repose · slumber
in the texts
Nicomachean Ethics
The state during which the soul's morally evaluative functions cease, used to illustrate the vegetative faculty's lack of human excellence.
This is a natural result of the fact that sleep is a cessation of the soul from the functions on which its goodness or badness depends—except that in some small degree certain of the sense-impressions may reach into soul during sleep, and consequently the dreams of the good are better than those of ordinary men.
De Rerum Natura
The physiological state explained by Lucretius as caused by disturbance and partial expulsion/retreat of the soul's particles within the body.
Sleep chiefly comes when energy of soul
Again, sleep follows after food, because
Pours through our members waters of repose