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.
That sense of mind is in no fixed part seated,
To feel sensation by a "harmony"
Named "harmony" by Greeks, because thereby
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 a harmony cannot be expected to lead the elements of which it is composed, but to follow them.
I cannot therefore accept from myself or anyone else the statement that the soul is a harmony.
Will they say that this is another kind of harmony and a discord, and that the soul, which is itself a harmony, has within it another harmony and that the other soul is discordant and has no other harmony within it?