Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', '67: Platonic Questions' and '68: Generation of the soul in 'Timaeus''

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6 ideas

15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 2. Psuche

5960	When the soul is intelligent and harmonious, it is part of god and derives from god [Plutarch]

18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 3. Emotions / f. Emotion and reason

5963	Some say emotion is a sort of reason, and others say virtue concerns emotion [Plutarch]

19. Language / F. Communication / 3. Denial

1554	Contradiction is impossible, since only one side of the argument refers to the true facts [Prodicus, by Didymus the Blind]

28. God / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / c. Teleological Proof critique

1555	People used to think anything helpful to life was a god, as the Egyptians think the Nile a god [Prodicus]

28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 5. Atheism

535	The gods are just personified human benefits [Prodicus]

1543	He denied the existence of the gods, saying they are just exaltations of things useful for life [Prodicus]