harmony
“as theory of soul”
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 4 anchored passages
"harmony" · a harmony
in the texts
De Rerum Natura
The rival philosophical doctrine (associated with the Greeks and named by musicians) that mental sensation is merely a harmonious state of the body, not a distinct substance.
In any part:
To feel sensation by a "harmony"
A part of man, give over "harmony"-
Phaedo
The theory, associated with Simmias, that the soul is a kind of harmony or attunement of the bodily elements (like a lyre's tuning), refuted across this passage.
Then, my good friend, it will never do for us to say that the soul is a harmony;
Now which do you prefer, that knowledge is recollection or that the soul is a harmony?
I cannot therefore accept from myself or anyone else the statement that the soul is a harmony.